WW1 British War Medal (single medal only) - Awarded to Private S/7980 FRANCIS ALEXANDER of the Army Ordnance Corps and the Army Service Corps - 2nd ASC Repair Shop (Rouen) & 364th Motor Transport Company (Calais)

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WW1 British War Medal - Awarded to Private S/7980 FRANCIS ALEXANDER of the Army Ordnance Corps and the Army Service Corps.

You are looking at a single WW1 British War Medal awarded to Private 7980 (S/7980) FRANCIS ALEXANDER of the Army Ordnance Corps and Army Service Corps.

The medal is inscribed ‘7980 PTE. F.ALEXANDER. A.O.C.’

FRANCIS was born in 1888 at Aberdeen, and at the point of enlisting into the army, he was living at 400 Romford Road in the Forest Gate area of London, and he was a boilermaker by profession.

Prior to WW1, he was a member of the Royal Garrison Artillery, RGA(T) (TE).

On the 27^th of August 1914, within just one month of Great Britain officially joining the war, FRANCIS was enlisted into the Army Ordnance Corps at Woolwich, and according to his service record, he arrived in France on the 28^th of October 1914, making him eligible for the 1914 Star.

FRANCIS transferred to the Army Service Corps on the 12^th of May 1915, and his service record provides that he was employed at the 2^nd Army Service Corps Repair Shop at Chantiers-de-Normandie in Rouen, a major depot and workshop facility, the Base Motor Transport Depot (N) at Calais, and the 364^th Motor Transport (M.T.) Company at Calais, which was his final unit before demobilisation and leaving the army.

This medal was awarded to someone whose surviving service record details his time with the Army Ordnance Corps and the Army Service Corps, who served for a considerable time in France, most of the war in fact, from the 28^th of October 1914 to the 7^th of March 1919, and was employed at identified A.S.C. units in the Rouen and Calais area, units within which his trade as a boilermaker would have been in demand. 

SELLER NOTE = This medals is from a collection, 7 x medals in total, all awarded to soldiers with the surname ALEXANDER, and they were purchased in the believe that at least some would have been related to each other. From the research conducted, this has been found NOT to be the case, however, those seeking medals in the ALEXANDER surname should consider the others just in case they are connected in some way.

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