WW1 BRITISH ARMY TERRITORIAL MEDAL GROUP TO 374063 QTR MASTER SERGEANT GEALL RA

Description

Offered is a British Army medal group, as awarded to 374063 Battery Quartermaster Sergeant F Geall, who served on the Western Front from 1916 with the Royal Artillery, having previously served as a pre war Territorial NCO.

Medals include the following awards: War Medal & Victory Medal, impressed named 374063 B.Q.M.SJT. F. GEALL. R.A.; Territorial Force War Medal, impressed named 374063 SJT. F. GEALL. R.A. & Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, impressed named 374063 B.Q.M.SJT. F. GEALL. R.G.A.  Court mounted for display. Comes with medal entitlement paperwork and brief unit summary.

Battery Quarter Master Sergeant Fred Geall served with the 163rd Siege Battery, which had been with the 81 Mixed Brigade since 11th October 1917 between September and February 1918. 163rd Siege Battery was in the Arras area. Billets east of Arras and guns in Athies. The Battery was certainly present for some of the heaviest fighting, particularly at Vimy Ridge, Ypres and Arras. The 163rd Battery was part of the 1st Canadian Heavy Artillery Group, supporting the famous 4th Canadian Division attack on Vimy Ridge in April 1917, with total battlefield casualties for the campaign numbering 3598 killed and 7004 wounded.