A Fine Collection of American Medals

A Philippine Campaign Medal group of six awarded to Sergeant A. Corbishley, Company F, 26th Infantry and Rhode Island Militia

Philippine Campaign Medal, Army issue (No.11712) with full wrap brooch, with riband bar in the Mint of the U.S.A., Philadelphia card box of issue bearing the number ‘11712’; Victory Medal 1918, official type 2, no clasps, with full wrap brooch, in The Art Medal Works, Newark card box of issue; Rhode Island Militia Marksman Badge, bronze, reverse inscribed, ‘Sergt. A. Corbishley’, with two bars, ‘18 Marksman 98’ and ‘19 Marksman 03’, this with pin-fitting; Spanish War Veterans Members’ Badge, bronze, suspension bar numbered, ‘65522’, complete with brooch bar, in card box; Expert Riflemans’s Badge, silver, pin-backed, in card box of issue; Pistol Expert Badge, silver, pin-backed, in card box, some damage to boxes, good very fine and better (6) £140-180

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Arthur Corbishley was born in Adelaide, South Australia on 25 November 1878. As a Corporal in Company F, 26th Infantry, he served in the Philippines Campaign and on 29 August 1908 was awarded the medal bearing the designation ‘No.11712’. Served in the Rhode Island Kentish Guard Militia in 1903. On 29 August 1916 he was appointed Sergeant, with the position of Army Field Clerk assigned to the Adjutant General’s Department. His principal stations being Manila, Philippine Islands and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. With some copied research. Together with eight buttons, badges, etc.