Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. pair awarded to Driver P. Simpson, Royal Army Service Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (T3-023867 Dvr: P. Simpson. R.A.S.C.); British War Medal 1914-20 (T3-023867 Dvr. P. Simpson. A.S.C.) edge nicks and light polishing to both, nearly very fine (2) £160-£200

M.M. London Gazette 17 June 1919.

Peter Simpson, a resident of Coldingham in the Scottish Borders, was awarded the Military Medal whilst serving in France with the 35th Divisional Train, Royal Army Service Corps. Prior to this distinction, his photograph was published in the Berwickshire News and General Advertiser on 30 November 1915, under the headline ‘Patriotic Coldingham Family’:

‘Two Sons and Son-in-Law Serving and One Son Killed.
Mrs. Simpson, Blue House, Coldingham, whose husband the late Mr. John Simpson, was a baker in Edinburgh, has had 3 sons and a son-in-law on service and of those her second son has died of wounds, and her son-in-law is missing. Corporal George Simpson, 1st Canadians, died of wounds in France on November 13, aged 27. His brothers John and Peter Simpson are both drivers in the Army Service Corps.’