Orders, Decorations and Medals

Seven: Captain J. F. Field, Royal Army Ordnance Corps, awarded a M.S.M. for ‘Siberia’

British War and Victory Medals (S-6588 A.W.O. Cl. 1, A.O.C.); Defence and War Medals, unnamed; Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-6588 T. Sub-Condr., R.A.O.C.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue, fixed suspension (7574402 W.O. Cl. II, R.A.O.C.); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial, reverse officially dated, ‘1950’, in Royal Mint case of issue, good very fine and better (7) £400-500

M.S.M. London Gazette 22 January 1920. ‘.... for valuable services rendered with the British Forces in Siberia.’

Recommendation, dated Vladivostok, 3 October 1919, reads: ‘For meritorious service, resource and ability and devotion to duty. This W.O. has been with the Mission nearly 12 months, when he was alone to do Ordnance and other work on arrival and until R.A.O.C. arrived from England in January. He has done excellent work and has always been cheerful and willing, setting a good example to others in trying times, when tact was most necessary to avoid trouble and pushing the work on.’

Eff. Dec. London Gazette 21 April 1950. ‘Capt. J. F. Field, Royal Army Ordnance Corps’

James Francis Field was born in Woolwich, Kent on 18 June 1891. A Clerk by occupation, he attested for the A.O.C. at Woolwich on 18 January 1910. With the unit he served in South Africa, January 1913-September 1914; Hong Kong, January 1917-September 1918, and Vladivostock, September 1918-November 1919. For his services in North Russia he was awarded the M.S.M. Field continued to serve after the Great War and into the Second and was awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1950 as a Captain in the R.A.O.C.

With repaired recommendation form; Soldiers’ Service and Pay Book; military history sheets; damaged forwarding slip for the Efficiency Decoration, and copied gazette extracts.