Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin

Four: Armourer Quartermaster Sergeant T. J. Pierson, Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, late Army Ordnance Corps, attached 9th Lancers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (742 Ar. Sjt. T. J. Pierson, A.O.C.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (742 Armr:-Serjt: T. J. Pierson, A.O.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., Canada reverse, E.VII.R. (No. 198 Q.M. Sergt. T. C. Pierson, C.O.C.) note second initial; Meritorious Service Medal, Canada reverse, G.V.R. (Arm. Q.M.S. (W.O. Cl.2) T. J. Pierson, R.C.O.C.) cleaned and mounted court style, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine and a rare group (4) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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L.S. & G.C. medal Canada Gazette 26 October 1912.

M.S.M. Canada Gazette 4 July 1931.

Thomas Jackson Pierson was born in Manchester, Lancashire, in about January 1869, son of Thomas Jackson Pierson, of New Jersey, U.S.A. He attested into the 7th Dragoon Guards at Canterbury on 3 December 1886, and shortly afterwards transferred to the 6th Dragoon Guards. In March 1891 he joined the Corps of Armourers in Birmingham, giving his trade as gunsmith. As a 2nd Class Armourer Sergeant, Pierson served with the 9th Lancers from 1891 to 1907, both at home and overseas, including at Pietersmaritzburg and Ladysmith from August 1896 to March 1898, at Muttra in India until October 1899, and during the Boer War from October 1899 to November 1900. He had been promoted 1st Class Armourer Sergeant in March 1898.

Pierson then served at Aldershot with the 7th Hussars until November 1901, when he returned to South Africa for a further 4 years with the 7th Hussars. He rejoined the Depot Company, A.O.C., on 24 August 1907, and was discharged at Woolwich six days later, for re-enlistment in the Canadian Permanent Forces. Thereafter he served in the Canadian Ordnance Corps, receiving his L.S. & G.C. medal in 1912, and the M.S.M. in 1931. Sold with copied service papers.