Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A scarce Great War M.M. and French Medal of Honour in silver-gilt, inter-War B.E.M. group of ten awarded to Staff Quartermaster Sergeant T. Pollock, Royal Army Service Corps, later Captain, Army Catering Corps Training Centre

Military Medal, G.V.R. (S-18630 S.Q.M. Sjt: T. Pollock. A.S.C.); British Empire Medal, (Civil) G.VI.R., 1st issue (Thomas Pollock, M.M.); 1914 Star, with clasp (S-18630 S.Sjt. T. Pollock. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves (S-18630 T.W.O. Cl.1. T. Pollock. A.S.C.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf, both contemporarily engraved ‘Thomas Pollock. M.M. B.E.M.’; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (S-18630 T.S.S. Mjr. T. Pollock. R.A.S.C.) surname officially corrected; Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-18630 S.Q.M. Sjt: T. Pollock. A.S.C.); France, Third Republic, Medal of Honour, silver-gilt, with crossed swords and wreath suspension, unnamed as issued, good very fine and better, the last scarce to unit (10) £600-£800

M.M. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

B.E.M. London Gazette 9 June 1938.

M.S.M. London Gazette 4 June 1917.

French Medal of Honour London Gazette 11 July 1919.

Thomas Pollock, a native of Londonderry, attested for the Army Service Corps and served during the Great War as a Staff Quartermaster Sergeant with Headquarters on the Western Front from 9 October 1914. For his services during the Great War he was twice Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazettes 22 June 1915 and 1 January 1916); and was awarded the Military Medal; the Meritorious Service Medal; and the French Medal of Honour with crossed swords in gilt. Remaining in the Royal Army Service Corps following the cessation of hostilities, he was awarded his Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, before taking up a civilian appointment as the Chief Civilian Instructor at the Army Vocational Training Centre, Aldershot, for which he was awarded the British Empire Medal in the 1938 Birthday Honours’ List.

Following the outbreak of the Second World War, Pollock was granted an emergency commission as Lieutenant and Quartermaster on 25 September 1939, and was promoted War Substantive Captain on 11 November 1942. He was appointed Adjutant of the Army Catering Corps Training Centre on 21 June 1945, and retired in 1949.

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