Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lieutenant R. Armsden, Montgomeryshire Yeomanry, attached Royal Welsh Fusiliers, later Detachment Medical Officer (Caernarvonshire), British Red Cross Society

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. R. Armsden.); Defence Medal; Voluntary Medical Service Medal, with two Additional Award Bars (Dr. Reginald Armsden) wear to obverse of VM, nearly very fine and better (4) £120-£160

Reginald Armsden was born at Llanberis on 23 April 1898 and was appointed to a commission as Second Lieutenant in the Montgomeryshire Yeomanry on 4 June 1917. Posted to France 25 December 1917, he was advanced Lieutenant 26 October 1918 and later qualified L.R.C.P. Lond. 1925 (University College Hospital). He claimed his medals for Great War service in 1924 and was later appointed House Physician in the cancer wing of Battersea General Hospital. Listed in 1939 as Physician and Surgeon, he appears to have spent his free time aboard his privately owned 23-foot wooden sloop Cara. Retired to Llanfaglan, he died on 18 November 1977.

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