A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Captain H. G. Stuart, Army Service Corps and Royal Air Force, awarded an M.S.M. for service in Egypt

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914-15 Star (S-16257 Pte., A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (S-16257 Pte., A.S.C.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-16257 S.S.M., A.S.C.); France, Medaille Militaire, enamelled; with an A.S.C. cap badge, these mounted for display; together with a mounted set of six miniature dress medals, in leather Hunt & Roskell, London case, good very fine and better (13) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the Army Service Corps.

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M.C. London Gazette 2 February 1916. ‘No. S/16257 Staff Serjeant-Major, Army Service Corps.’

M.S.M. London Gazette 19 November 1917. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered with the Armies in the Field during the present war.’ [For ‘Devotion’ in Egypt] ‘S/16257 S./S./M., A.S.C. (Littlehampton)’

M.I.D. London Gazette 5 November 1915. ‘No. S/16257 Staff Serjeant-Major [Army Service Corps]’ - General Ian Hamilton’s despatch, C-in-C. Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, dated 26 August 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 28 January 1916. ‘No. S/16257 Staff Serjeant-Major [Army Service Corps]’ - General Ian Hamilton’s despatch, dated 11 December 1915.

M.I.D. London Gazette 1 December 1916. ‘No. S/16257 Staff Serjeant-Major (acting 1st Class Staff Serjt.-Maj.)’ - General A. J. Murray’s despatch, C-in-C. Egyptian Expeditionary Force, dated, 1 October 1916.

M.I.D. London Gazette 12 January 1918 ‘No. S/16257 Staff Serjeant-Major (acting 1st Class Staff Serjt.-Maj.), M.C. [Army Service Corps]’ - General A. J. Murray’s despatch, C-in-C Egyptian Expeditionary Force, dated 28 June 1917.

Medaille Militaire London Gazette 24 February 1916.



Henry Greville Stuart was born in Bangalore, India on 1 August 1896. Serving as a Private in the A.S.C. he entered the African/Egyptian theatre of war on 27 March 1915. Attaining the rank of Acting 1st Class Staff Serjeant-Major, Stuart was four times mentioned in despatches and awarded the M.C., M.S.M. and Medaille Militaire for his services in the Eastern Mediterranean and Egypt. On 11 February 1918 he entered into the R.F.C. and thence the R.A.F. but was discharged on 26 April 1918. Returning to the R.A.S.C., he was commissioned on 26 March 1919 and later attained the rank of Temporary Captain.



With original Air Ministry forwarding slip for the 1914-15 Star, addressed to ‘Capt. H. G. Stuart, M.C., 35 Guiford Street, W.C.1’; with riband bar; together with a quantity of copied service papers and gazette extracts.