Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Major S. N. Beall, Royal Field Artillery, late Honourable Artillery Company

1914-15 Star (633 Gnr. S. N. Beall. H.A.C. (Art.)); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. S. N. Beall.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated 1942, with integral top brooch bar, very fine and better (6) £160-£200

Sam Norman Beall was born in Lewisham, London, around 1893, and is recorded in 1911 as an insurance clerk living with his parents in Shenfield, Essex. He attested for the Honourable Artillery Company in 1914 and served as Gunner (Artillery) in Egypt from 21 April 1915. Appointed to a commission in the Royal Field Artillery 12 January 1917, he transferred to the Territorial Force as Lieutenant in 1925 and was raised Major in 1929. Appointed Officer Commanding 222nd Battery (T.A.) at Paignton, he returned home to London in the late 1930s and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in the London Gazette of 12 May 1942.