A Great war MM group of 11 to Major F F West Royal Signals / Late Royal Engineers

GV Military Medal. Correctly impressed - 23109 Sjt F F West 2/Sig Coy RE 

1914 Star, with copy clasp. Correctly impressed  23109 2Cpl F West RE (reissued 19.8.1924, later style of naming) 

Pair. Correctly impressed -  23109 Sjt F F West RE

1939-45 Star

Defence Medal

War Medal

1939-45 Star 

Jubilee 1935

GVI Meritorious Service Medal, 2nd issue. Correctly impressed -  2306332 WO Cl2 F F West MM R Sigs 

GV LSGC, 2nd issue, fixed suspension. Correctly impressed -  2306332 WO ClII F F West R Signals

GVI Efficiency Decoration, 2nd issue, Territorial, silver and silver-gilt, reverse officially dated 1951, with two Additional Award Bars, one GVI the other EII

 

Mounted for display.

Condition -  NVF for the first four, the rest VF+

 

Francis F. West was a pre-war regular. He arrived on the Western Front on 17th August 1917, serving with the 2nd Signal Company Royal Engineers. He was awarded the Military Medal (LG 22nd January 1917) this likely being a late Battle of the Somme award. Before the end of the war, he was promoted to Sergeant. 

 

In the post-war years, he remained in the Army and was awarded his LSGC in 1927. Awarded the Jubilee medal while serving as Lieutenant & Quarter Master in 43rd Divisional Signals (TA). He served throughout WW2 with this unit and was promoted to Captain on 11th April 1945, awarded the Territorial Decoration in 1948 and the Bar in 1951. He retired as a Major in 1950.