Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant F. R. Underwood, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, who later served as part of the Irish Command during the Irish Civil War

1914 Star, with clasp (140 Sq. Q.M. Sjt. F. R. Underwood. 1/1 North’n Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. F. R. Underwood.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (141 [sic] Sq: S. Mjr: F. R. Underwood. Nth’n: Yeo:) mounted court-style, cleaned and lacquered, good very fine and a scarce combination to the unit (4) £400-£500

Frank Roden Underwood was born in West Haddon, Northamptonshire, on the 28 May 1883. A boot manufacturer by profession, he attested for the Northampton Imperial Yeomanry on 19 April 1905, and transferred to the Northamptonshire Yeomanry on 10 April 1908. Promoted Corporal on 29 May 1908, Sergeant on 18 March 1910, and Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant on 23 December 1913, he served with A Squadron, 1st/1st Battalion, Northamptonshire Yeomanry during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 November 1914, and was appointed Squadron Sergeant Major on 18 April 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 1st/3rd Battalion, Northamptonshire Yeomanry, on 5 October 1915, and was promoted Lieutenant on 1 January 1917, serving with the 2nd/1st Battalion in France until August 1917.

Underwood subsequently moved to Ballincollig, Cork, and was attached to the 2nd/1st Battalion, Scottish Horse in 1918 in Limerick and later with the Ordnance Corps in 1920 as part of the Irish Command. He resigned his Commission on 24 August 1921. The 1939 Register shows him working as a Commercial Boot Salesman and living in Arnold, Nottinghamshire. He died in Woodthorpe, Nottinghamshire, on 30 March 1954.

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