Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain G. E. M. Johnson, Honourable Artillery Company

1914-15 Star (44 B.S.Mjr. G. Johnson. H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. G. E. M. Johnson); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (1396015 Bmbr. L.Sjt. G. E. M. Johnson. H.A.C.) on H.A.C. riband, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, these similarly mounted, good very fine (4) £200-£240

George Edward McQueen Johnson was born in Louth, Lincolnshire, in 1880. He attested for the Honourable Artillery Company’s Reserve Battery as Saddler on 11 May 1908, and served with “A” Battery in the opening years of the Great War before being appointed to a Commission with the Royal Field Artillery on 25 February 1916. Advanced Temporary Lieutenant 17 November 1917 and Acting Captain on 21 March 1919, he reverted to the ranks post-War and was issued his TFEM in August 1921. Johnson is later recorded in the contemporary press of 1947 as a Nottingham radio dealer and repairer.

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