A '1918 FIRST TANK BRIGADE' MILITARY CROSS GROUP OF FIVE TO ...

A '1918 FIRST TANK BRIGADE' MILITARY CROSS GROUP OF FIVE TO THE ROYAL ENGINEERS. A Great War group of five comprising Military Cross named to Capt E.F. Spears 1915 Star to 1648 Sjt E.F. Spears R.E. War medal and Victory medal to Lieut E.F. Spears and Territorial Force Efficiency Medal to 1049 Sjt E.F. Spears 8/Lond Rgt. Mounted as worn. Edgar Ford Spears served with the 8th Battalion of the London Regiment prior to the Great War and received the Territorial Efficiency Medal on the 1st July 1914. He entered the conflict in France on the 17th March 1915. Commissioned on the 23rd May 1916. He was awarded the Military Medal in the birthday honours of the 3rd June 1919 at the time a Temporary Lieutenant Acting Captain with the 1st Tank Brigade Signal Company, Royal Engineers. The War Diary for the 1st Tank Brigade Signal Company R.E. records Temporary Second Lieutenant joining them at Arras on the 6th November 1917. With copied research and War Diary extract. Provenance Spink London.

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