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An Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Acting Sergeant C. G. Merritt, St. John Ambul...
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An Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Acting Sergeant C. G. Merritt, St. John Ambulance Association, late 22nd (County of London) Battalion (The Queen’s), London Regiment The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel, heraldic beasts in angles; British War and Victory Medals (4822 A.Sjt. C. G. Merritt. 22-Lond.R.); Defence Medal; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 7 years top brooch bar, bronze, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1926.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 14 years top brooch bar, silver, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1933.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, 9ct. gold, with 21 years top brooch bar and 40 years additional award bar, the medal reverse inscribed ‘Carl Merritt 1940’ and the bar ‘1959’, minor contact marks to BWM and VM, otherwise good very fine (7) £200-£240 --- Carl George Merritt was born in Wimbledon on 28 October 1896 and served in France with the London Regiment during the Great War. He later devoted over 40 years of his life to the Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association, being recorded as Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the London Gazette of 7 January 1955. Retired to Dorset, he died in Poole in 1985.
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An Order of St. John group of seven awarded to Acting Sergeant C. G. Merritt, St. John Ambulance Association, late 22nd (County of London) Battalion (The Queen’s), London Regiment The Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Officer’s breast badge, silver and enamel, heraldic beasts in angles; British War and Victory Medals (4822 A.Sjt. C. G. Merritt. 22-Lond.R.); Defence Medal; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 7 years top brooch bar, bronze, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1926.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, with 14 years top brooch bar, silver, reverse inscribed ‘Carl G. Merritt 1933.’; Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association Medal, 9ct. gold, with 21 years top brooch bar and 40 years additional award bar, the medal reverse inscribed ‘Carl Merritt 1940’ and the bar ‘1959’, minor contact marks to BWM and VM, otherwise good very fine (7) £200-£240 --- Carl George Merritt was born in Wimbledon on 28 October 1896 and served in France with the London Regiment during the Great War. He later devoted over 40 years of his life to the Southern Railway St John Ambulance Association, being recorded as Officer of the Order of St John of Jerusalem in the London Gazette of 7 January 1955. Retired to Dorset, he died in Poole in 1985.
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