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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 117

(x) Five: Lieutenant-Conductor A. A. Inward, Military Works Services

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (22694. Sergt. A. A. Inward. R.E.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Sub-Condr. A. A. Inward, M.W.S.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (S-C. A. A. Inward. M.W.S.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (Sergt. A. A. Inward M.W. Services), lacquered, good very fine (5)

Albert Arthur Inward was born in November 1871 at Birmingham, the son of Corporal Thomas Inward, Royal Engineers. He served with the 2nd Division Staff during the Tirah Expedition, attached to the Queen's Own Sappers and Miners, subsequently transferring to the Military Works Service and advanced Sub-Conductor. On the outbreak of the Great War, Inward served in France from 12 October 1914, landing in Marseilles as part of the Headquarters Staff, 7th (Meerut Division), Indian Corps. He was 'mentioned' serving with 1A-Military Works Service (London Gazette 1 January 1916, refers), and was later appointed Assistant Commissary, Indian Army, with the rank of Lieutenant-Conductor on 29 August 1922. Returning to England in June 1924, Inward died at home in Ilford, Essex, on 7 November 1952.

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