WW1 & WW2 GROUP VERY RARE 2 BAR TERRITORIAL FORCE EFFICIENCY MEDAL. 1914/15 STAR, WAR MEDAL & DEFENCE MEDAL. RQMS Frank Kent 6th London Regiment. 1914/1915 Star : 58, SJT. War Medal : 58 A. Territorial Force Efficiency Medal with 2nd & 3rd award bars : 58 SJT:F. Defence Medal :un-named as issued. The Photos speak volumes and what you see is what you get. Sadly the Victory medal was already missing (I did ask) and the vendor couldn’t tell me anything about the medals either. I was sure I had found something unusual so bought them anyway. I recognised a TFEM with second award bar as rare but a 3rd award bar is unheard of! The medal was for twelve years service and each bar for a further twelve years taking in to account that the war years counted as double this is still a medal for very long service indeed for an NCO in the Volunteers. I also realised that a very low service number is something special too. This soldier obviously later went on to serve in the second World War in some capacity. Battalion City of London Rifles. Promoted CQMS on 1/2/15, Promoted acting RQMS 11/3/18. Served in G Company. 14-15 Star, War medal and Victory medal confirmed on MIC. June 1876 Buckingham Palace Rd, London. Attended Batersea Park Rd, School , Wandsworth, from 12 May 1884, to 23. November 1889 formerly a pupil of St. Religious denomination Roman Catholic. Residence: 65 Blondell St. In the 1891 Census Frank is 14 and working as a Commercial Clerk living with his father and mother both aged 40 a younger brother Frederick aged 12 and sisters Florence 10 and Lily 3. Address 65 Blondel St. Father; Francis, Edwin Kent/ Hotel Waiter. Married: Ellen, Susannah, Caroline Bowles on 28. February 1905 at St. Pauls Church, Bath Rd, Hounslow. Enlisted on : 01/04/1897 in the 6. Battalion City of London Rifles, at Farringdon Road. Proffesion at the time of the 1911 Census was Assistant Timekeeper and Storekeeper to the Trustees of the British Museum, Bloomsbury, Westminster, London. Address , 4 Killarney Rd. Embarked Southampton 17/3/15 Disembarked Le Havre 18/3/15. Served 2 years and 4 months in France and Belgium. Sustained injury to right knee crushed in a limber near Ypres in December 1916. Causes pain and slight limp and difficulty in walking any distance. On the 5/7/17 to Base for discharge. 10/7/17 Transferred to England time expired. Re posted to the 6. (Reserve) City of London Rifles. Blackdown Army Camp Surrey. May 1919 Aged, 42. Rank : Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant. Address : 57 Bulstrode Rd, Heston, Hounslow , Middlesex. Pension; Home service 01/04/08 16/03/15 =6 years 350 days. France 17/03/15 09/07/17 = 2 years 115 days. Home service 10/07/17 11/05/19 = 1 year 306 days. = 11 years and 41 days. No entries in the regimental defaulters book. February 1956 Golden Hill House, Stourton Caundle, Dorsetshire. 1d to widow Ellen Susannah Caroline Kent. (TF) was organised in 1908 as a result of the. The 2nd London RVC became the 6th (City of London) Battalion of the new. And formally adopted the title of City of London Rifles. Individual companies continued to be associated with particular employers, for example. (C Coy), The South Metropolitan Gas Co (D Coy), Harmsworth (E Coy), Associated Newspapers (F Coy) and Eyre & Spottiswoode (G Coy). The battalion formed part of. In the TF’s. Mid-August the battalion went into camp at Bisley, Surrey. And a month later moved to Crowborough. Sussex, where it was trained in field operations. By 5 November, a number of individual London TF battalions had already been sent overseas and the 1/6th was transferred to the 4th London Brigade. In 2nd London Division. To bring it up to full strength in order to proceed to France as a formation. The battalion moved to Watford. To join its new brigade, and field training continued until 16 March 1915, when it entrained for Southampton. To embark for the Western Front. During the night of 17/18 March the 1/6th Londons sailed to Le Havre. Aboard the SS La Marguerite. The 2nd London Division, soon afterwards numbered 47th (1/2nd London) Division. Went into the line near Béthune. To be instructed in trench warfare by the Regular 2nd Division. The 1/6th Londons were teamed with the 1st Bn KRRC and 2nd Bn South Staffordshire Regiment. During April the battalion began to take responsibility for holding its own section of the line, and suffered its first casualties. I hope I have aroused your interest. Now it’s your chance to own a piece of history. Please note this is a Private Sale. I guarantee my medals are genuine, original and to the best of my knowledge of the period stated. Prussian Iron cross 1st Class and 2nd Class, Hanseatic cross Lubeck Trio, Mecklenburg Cross long service Trio, Brunswick Trio, Bavarian Military Merit Cross, Saxon Golden Merit medal, etc. The item “WW1 Rare 2 bar Territorial Force Efficiency Medal Group, v. Low Number, London Rgt” is in sale since Wednesday, January 11, 2017. This item is in the category “Collectables\Militaria\World War I (1914-1918)\Medals/ Ribbons”. The seller is “highlander62geoff” and is located in Norwich, Norfolk. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Type: Medals & Ribbons
- Era: 1914-1945
- Service: Army
- Issued/ Not-Issued: Issued
- Conflict: World War I (1914-1918)
- Country/ Organization: Great Britain
- Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom