WW1 British Army Meritorious Service Medal group to Sapper Ernest Harnwell, 148th Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers

WW1 British Army Meritorious Service Medal group to Sapper Ernest Harnwell, 148th Army Troops Company, Royal Engineers. British War and Victory Medals, impressed named 160307 SPR. E.A. HARNWELL.R.E.; Army Meritorious Service Medal (G.V.R.) impressed named 160307. SPR. L.CPL-S.A.HARNWELL. R.E. The medals are card mounted for display.

Comes with M.I.C, medal roll, copy London Gazette 18/1/1919, National Roll of the Great War and 1939 census. Meritorious Service Medal gazetted: London Gazette 18/1/1919. 148th A.T Coy. Home city being Northampton.

Ernest Archer Harnwell was born on the 6/6/1887, his service is recorded in the National Roll of the Great War. ‘Having volunteered in December 1915, he underwent a period of training prior to being drafted overseas in August 1916. Whilst on the Western front he was engaged on important duties with his unit and served during heavy fighting at Albert, Thiepval and Courcelette in the Somme sector. He did consistently good work and was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for devotion to duty in the field. After the caseation of hostilities, he served with the army of occupation at Bonn, Germany. Demobilised in April 1919, he holds the General Service and Victory Medals. Roade Hanyts’. The 1939 census records him as living in Northampton and occupation as Maintenance Engineer red lead & iron oxide. He died in 1972.