Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A scarce ‘Siberia’ M.S.M. pair awarded to Acting Sergeant L. J. Young, Royal Army Service Corps

British War Medal 1914-20 ((S-391138 A. Sjt. L. G. Young. A.S.C.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-391138 Pte. -A.Sjt.- L. G. Young. R.A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (2) £300-£400

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, June 2005.

M.S.M. London Gazette 22 January 1920:
‘For valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Siberia’.

Lindsay Gordon Young attested for the Royal Army Service Corps at Holloway, London, and served during the Great War in Siberia, as part of a small British force consisting of two infantry battalions (Middlesex and Hampshire Regiments) and some Royal Navy gun teams. The purpose of the first military mission was to transfer military equipment to the White Russian armies and to train them how to use it. The second mission endeavoured to restore order in the chaos that was the Russian lines of communication. Most of the second mission were pulled back from Omsk for evacuation from Vladivostok in September 1919. Some training officers came out with the remnant of Kolchak’s Army in January 1920. Young was discharged on 19 September 1920.

6 ‘Siberia’ Meritorious Service Medals awarded to the Royal Army Service Corps.