Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Lieutenant Colonel T. Munro, Royal Artillery

Coronation 1911, privately engraved (Major T. Munro. R.A.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, no clasp (22978. Corpl. T. Munro. 4/1st. --- Div: R.A.); British War and Victory Medals (Major T. Munro.); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, privately engraved (4/1 L.D. R.A. Corpl. Munro); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (22978. 3rd. Cl.: Mr: Gr. T. Munro. R.A.) the first mounted as worn in this order, the last loose, heavy wear, contact marks and pitting to Egypt and Sudan Medal, naming obscured in places, therefore fine, the remainder very fine and better (6) £360-£440

Thomas Munro was born in Chatham around 1859 and attested for the Royal Artillery at Sheerness on 10 October 1873, aged fourteen years. Appointed to 1st Brigade as Boy (under age), he was advanced Trumpeter 1 July 1875 and posted overseas to Barbados from October 1875 to March 1876. Transferred to Halifax and then Malta, he served in Egypt and the Sudan during the Mahdist uprising from 20 July 1882 to 13 October 1882. Promoted Battery Sergeant Major Clerk 15 November 1886, he joined the Coastal Brigade, Royal Artillery, and was appointed Master Gunner 1 April 1888; the recipient’s Army Service Record confirms the award of the Army L.S. & G.C. Medal without gratuity under Army Order 191 of 1892.

Returned to Bermuda from 1892-95, Munro was appointed to a commission as ‘Lieutenant (District Officer), vice R. Wark, removed from the Army’, in the London Gazette of 10 March 1899. He saw steady progression through the officer ranks and was raised Major on 31 January 1911. Posted to the Western Front with the Royal Garrison Artillery from 28 August 1916 to 11 November 1918, he took his retirement on 1 December 1919 after 46 years of continuous service with the British Army, his last address recorded as ‘1, Longhill Terrace, Rodwell, Weymouth’.

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