A Collection of Meritorious Service Medals to British Regiments formed by a Gentleman

A Great War ‘Mesopotamia’ M.S.M. group of six awarded to Sub-Conductor J. W. Coleman, Indian Ordnance Department

1914-15 Star (S-Sgt., I.O.D.); British War Medal 1914-20 (S-Cond., I.O.D.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, Waziristan 1919-21, Waziristan 1921-24 (Sub-Condr., I.A.O.C.) second clasp connected by wire; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (Sub-Condr., I.O.D.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (Staff Serjt., I.O. Deptt.) engraved naming; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Sub. Condr., I.O.D.); together with an erased Victory Medal 1914-19, generally good very fine (7) £300-350

M.S.M. London Gazette 22 September 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Mesopotamia.’ ‘Sub. Condr., I.O.D., Indian Army.’

With copied gazette extract and m.i.c. for the M.S.M. and W.W.1 medals.