Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell

Six: Captain G. L. Farmer, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914 Star, with copy ‘slip-on’ clasp (1569 Cpl., R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (1569 S. Sjt., R.A.M.C.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (7245702 W.O. Cl. II, R.A.M.C.) mounted as worn; together with two Masonic jewels - one enamelled, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine and better (8) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Awards to the Medical Services from the Collection of the late Tony Sabell.

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George Leonard Farmer was born in 1891. As a Corporal in the R.A.M.C. he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914 - entitled to a clasp to his 1914 Star. Ranked as a Staff Serjeant by the end of the Great War; he retired in 1934 as a Warrant Officer Class I. He was recalled in 1939 and was appointed a Lieutenant and Quartermaster in February 1940 and War Substantive Captain in February 1943. George Farmer died on 15 January 1962.

With four photographs and copied research including Will.