Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private T. Green, Manchester Regiment, late Manchester Company, Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, Royal Army Medical Corps

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, clasp block loose on riband (13110 Pte. T. Green. R.A.M.C.) with contemporary silver brooch bar; British War and Victory Medals (36540 Pte. T. Green. Manch. R.); together with a silver and enamel ‘God Speed’, fob medal from Manchester Harriers Club 1898, finely engraved to the reverse ‘To Tom Green - A Memento from his Clubmates on his leaving for South Africa Feb. 13th 1900 ‘God Speed’’, mounted court-style for display, edge bruising, minor enamel damage to last, generally very fine (4) £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Tom Green was born in Liverpool in 1877 and at some time he joined the Manchester Volunteer Medical Staff Corps, a volunteer unit set up in 1888. Green was one of those volunteers who were selected for one year’s voluntary service in the South African War and attested for service in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He and the Manchester Company of the Volunteer Medical Staff Corps sailed for South Africa on 24 February 1900; most of his company served in No. 5 General Hospital at Cape Town. He returned to the U.K. in August 1901.

Following the outbreak of the Great War, Green attested for service in December 1915, but was not called up until May 1916, when he was posted to 13th (Service) Battalion, Manchester Regiment. He joined his battalion in Salonika in the Spring of 1916 and served as a machine gunner. In June 1918 he transferred to 9th Battalion the South Lancashire Regiment. He was discharged to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 21 April 1919.

Sold with copied service papers and other research.