Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Scarce ‘Siberia’ M.S.M. pair to Acting-Serjeant L. G. Young, Royal Army Service Corps

British War Medal 1914-20 (S-391138 A. Sjt., A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-391138 Pte.-A. Sjt., R.A.S.C.) nearly extremely fine (2) £260-300

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 22 January 1920. ‘S/391138 Pte. (A./Sjt.) Young, L. G. (Holloway)’. ‘... for valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Siberia’.

The British force in Siberia was small; consisting of two infantry battalions (Middlesex and Hampshire Regiments) and some R.N. gun teams. The purpose of the first military mission was to transfer military equipment to the White Russian armies and to train them how to use it. The second mission endeavoured to restore order in the chaos that was the Russian lines of communication. Most of the second mission were pulled back from Omsk for evacuation from Vladivostok in September 1919. Some training officers came out with the remnant of Kolchak’s Army in January 1920.

6 ‘Siberia’ M.S.M’s. to the R.A.S.C.