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A Great War Army Service Corps Cuff Rank Tunic.
A very good four pocket example, ranked to a Captain, missing its collar insignia, complete with all buttons and two year blue overseas service stripes, with metal fastener and belt supports, leather trim to cuffs, visible between the reverse of the tunic below the neck between the shoulder blades where previously a large red horse shoe divisional insignia was originally sewn, with maker’s label ‘Daniels & Sons, 8 Grand Parade, Military Tailors, Cork’,with pen markings ‘LEA, 7179, ASC’, attributed to Captain Archibald Raby Riley, Army Service Corps, who served on the Western Front with the 37th Division from 10 October 1916, relinquishing his commission on 19 March 1919 and was awarded a Silver War Badge, issued on 12 April 1919, very good condition £300-£400
Sold together with copied medal roll extract and copied Medal Index Card, showing that the British War and Victory Medals were dispatched to Captain Riley, formerly of Gort-More, Dartry Road, Dublin, to the Royal Bank, Cornmarket, Dublin.
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