A Small Collection of Medals to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment (Territorial Force)

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (168 C. Sjt: A. E. King. 5/Essex Regt.) nearly extremely fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment (Territorial Force).

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A. E. King served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment, from 1898. Transferring to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, on the formation of the Territorial Force in 1908, he was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 255 of October 1910, one of only 41 E.VII.R. Territorial Force Efficiency Medals awarded to the 5th Battalion. He did not serve overseas during the Great War (the Essex Regimental Museum has a photograph of him with 3/5th Battalion taken during the War, and he is noted as a Sergeant Major), he later served as President of the 5th Battalion Old Comrades Association.