Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.S.M. pair to Lieutenant A. O. Hemus, Royal Garrison Artillery

British War Medal 1914-20 (2 Lieut.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (31993 Sjt. (A.C.), R.A.) slight contact marks, very fine (2) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of Meritorious Service Medals.

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M.S.M. London Gazette 1 January 1917. ‘31993 Sjt. (Arty. Clerk) A. O. Hemus, R.A.’

Andrew Ogilvie Hemus served in France and Flanders from 9 August 1914 to 6 May 1918. Awarded the M.S.M. in 1917, he was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 19 November 1917. He was wounded during the course of the war. Promoted Lieutenant on 19 May 1919, he was transferred to the Machine Gun Corps in March 1920. Sold with copied m.i.c.