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Auction: 26002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 216

(x) A Great War M.M. group of four awarded to Private (Armoured Car Driver) S. H. Stuart, Army Service Corps, who earned his decoration with No. 6 Light Armoured Motor Battery, Motor Machine Gun Corps and probably served attached to Dunsterforce in Persia & Baku

Military Medal, G.V.R. (M2-052488 Pte. S. H. Stuart. R.A.S.C.); 1914-15 Star (M2-052488 Pte. S. H. Stuart. A.S.C.); British War and Victory Medals (M2-052488 Pte. S. H. Stuart. A.S.C.), good very fine (4)

M.M. London Gazette 29 March 1919 (Royal Army Service Corps attached 6th Light Armoured Motor Battery).

The entry confirms the award for Mesopotamia and is in the same entry as a number of similar awards for actions in Baku and Persia in 1918 to Dunsterforce. It is probable this award stems for the action against the Jungali at Resht, Persia, July 1918.

Sydney Herbert Stuart was born in November 1891 and is noted as a chauffeur at the point of his marriage in Holloway, London in December 1912. With the outbreak of the Great War, he served with the Army Service Corps in Egypt from 5 April 1915. Whilst there, he went to serve in the Armoured Cars of 'C' Battery, No. 6 Light Armoured Motor Battery, Motor Machine Gun Corps.

Given his work and that of his unit, it seems possible he was attached to Dunsterforce in order to drive their Armoured Cars during the campaigns around Baku and Persia. Either way, the awards to his unit were for Resht on 20 July 1918 and Jamalabad in October 1918. Having taken his M.M. and returned to London, by 1939 he had become a publican and managed the Green Man pub, living at Gascoine Place, Bethnal Green; sold together with copied research.

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Estimate
£300 to £500

Starting price
£300