Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, S. Persia, with M.I.D. oak leaves (200744 A-Sjt. C. T. Ward, R.W. Kent R.) edge bruise, very fine, rare £400-£500

Dix Noonan Webb, September 2014.

One of only 16 S. Persia clasps awarded to the Regiment.

M.I.D. London Gazette 30 January 1920:
‘For distinguished services with the British Forces in Persia during the period 1 April 1918 to 31 March 1919.’

Charles Thomas Ward attested for the Royal West Kent Regiment at Tonbridge, Kent, and served with the 1st/4th Battalion throughout the Great War in India (entitled to a British War Medal only), and then attached to the Military Staff Clerks, Bushire, under Major-General J. A. Douglas in South Persia from 27 November 1918 to 27 November 1919. He was discharged on 26 December 1919, his home address being ‘Mouse Hall, Kingsnoth, Ashford, Kent.’

Sold with copied service papers, medal roll extracts, and other research.