A Great War officer’s identity disc as worn by 2nd Lieutenant A.C.M. Pym, 16th Lancers, who saw service in France during the Great War, being Mentioned in Despatches on 1st January 1916.

A Great War officer’s identity disc as worn by 2^nd Lieutenant A.C.M. Pym, 16th Lancers, who saw service in France during the Great War, being Mentioned in Despatches on 1^st January 1916.

A Great War silver identity disc stamped ‘2^nd LIEUT A.C.M. PYM. 16^TH LANCERS. C.E.’, hallmarked for Asprey of London 1915 to reverse.

Condition: attempted erasure of ‘2^nd’ of the rank, otherwise Good Very Fine

As worn by Arthur Charles Melville Pym, born 18^th December 1897, the son of the late Reverend C.M. Pym, Elmleigh, Lough, Lincolnshire. Having attained his education at Haileybury, he served during the Great War as a Lieutenant in the 16^th Lancers in France from 1^st March 1915. Mentioned in Despatches for his service in France on 1^st January 1916.

who served during the Great War as a Lieutenant in the 16^th Lancers, seeing service in France from 1^st March 1915