Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal A. J. Froom, Connaught Rangers, later Royal Irish Regiment and Royal Engineers, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War whilst serving with 124th Tunnelling Company on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918

British War and Victory Medals (6371 Pte. A. J. Froom. Conn. Rang.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (6371 Pte. A. J. Froom. Conn. Rang.) light contact marks, good very fine, the last rare to unit (3) £360-£440

TFWM rare to unit, only one other being recorded in Cresswell’s Irish Medals.

Alfred James Froom was born in Brentford, Middlesex, in 1891 and attested for the Connaught Rangers on 9 December 1915. He served during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 February 1916, with variously the Connaught Ranges, Royal Irish Regiment, and Royal Engineers. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Bullecourt on 21 March 1918, the first day of the German Spring Offensive, whilst serving with the 124th Tunnelling Company, R.E., and is later recorded as having received gun shot wounds in both buttocks from a German sentry - whilst a Prisoner of War - on 31 October 1918. He was repatriated on 9 December 1918 and was discharged on 1 March 1919, reverting to the Territorial Force. Advanced Corporal, he was awarded his Territorial Efficiency Medal per Army Order 158 of 1925, and died in Weymouth in 1931.

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