Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Warrant Officer Class II G. Townsend, Gloucestershire Regiment, late Royal Berkshire Regiment and East Surrey Regiment

Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, undated [sic] reverse, 2 clasps, The Nile 1884-85, Suakin 1885 (No. 2118 Pte. G. Townsend. 1st. Berks. Regt.) renamed; Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, the reverse Regimentally impressed ‘1 Bks 2118 G T’; Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (9779 Sjt: G. Townsend. E. Surrey Regt.); 1914-15 Star (15019 C.S. Mjr. G. Townsend. Glouc: R.); British War and Victory Medals (15019 W.O. Cl. 2. G. Townsend. Glouc. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted for wear, contact marks to the second and third, otherwise nearly very fine and better (9) £240-£280

George Townsend attested for the Royal Berkshire Regiment and served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan, before transferring to the East Surrey Regiment and seeing further service in South Africa during the Boer War. Discharged, he re-enlisted in the Gloucestershire Regiment on 5 November 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 November 1915. He was discharged on 30 May 1916. His Second World War service is unconfirmed.