An interesting Military Cross winner’s Pre-Great War issue British Army aluminium identity disc worn by Private Anderson, 15th County of London Battalion - Civil Service Rifles, London Regiment, Territorial Force. Anderson was a Sergeant when with the Great War he then saw service with the Civil Service Rifles out on the Western Front from 17th March 1915, before being commissioned into the Special Reserve on 15th September 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant on probation into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps when posted to the 5th Reserve Battalion. Posted for operations to the 1st Battalion, which was also present on the Western Front, he had been promoted to Lieutenant and Acting Captain when he was awarded the Military Cross in January 1918, and later became a Major in the 2nd/1st West Kent Yeomanry. Post war he worked for the Board of Trade, and rose to become a Staff Officer with the Mines Department, service for which he was appointed a Member of the Civil Division of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in January 1931.
Pre-Great War issue British Army aluminium identity disc, stamped: ’1158 PTE. ANDERSON. 15 COY LON ‘E’’
Condition: evidence of wear, overall Very Fine.
George Frederick Anderson was a pre-war member of the Territorial Force who with the outbreak of the Great War originally saw service as a Sergeant (No.1158) with the 15th County of London Battalion - Civil Service Rifles, London Regiment, and was present out on the Western Front from 17th March 1915, before being commissioned into the Special Reserve on 15th September 1915 as a 2nd Lieutenant on probation into the King’s Royal Rifle Corps, when posted to the 5th Reserve Battalion. Posted for operations to the 1st Battalion, which was present on the Western Front, he was promoted to Lieutenant and Acting Captain by the time of the award of his Military Cross, as announced in the New Years Honours List as published in the London Gazette for 1st January 1918.
Anderson subsequently ended up serving as Major with the 2nd/1st West Kent Yeomanry, and was living in Finchley when he claimed his medals in January 1919. Anderson went work with the Board of Trade, and rose to become a Staff Officer with the Mines Department, service for which he was appointed a Member of the Civil Division of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, as announced in the New Years Honours List as published in the London Gazette for 1st January 1931.
