Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Corporal F. L. Brich, Army Service Corps, who later transferred to the Royal Engineers and was mentioned in despatched in 1918

British War and Victory Medals, with small M.I.D. oak leaves (215795 Cpl. F. L. Birch. A.S.C.) extremely fine (2) £60-£80

M.I.D. London Gazette 25 May 1918 (Haig).

Frank Louis Birch was born in 1881 and came from Peckham Rye. He was a confidential clerk when he enlisted in September 1916, aged 35. He served with the Army Service Corps in France from October 1916 in the Light Railways and Roads department. He transferred from the A.S.C. in a ‘compulsory’ posting to the Royal Engineers as a Sapper in the Directorate of Roads from 1 May 1917, serving as a clerk until April 1919 and reaching ‘very superior’ grade.

Sold with a contemporary postcard photograph assumed to be the recipient in uniform, together with copied research.