Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal (3), silver-gilt, for 21 Years...

Southern Railway St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal (3), silver-gilt, for 21 Years’ Service ‘Frederick A. Jarvis 1948’, with integral ‘21 Years’ top silver-gilt riband bar; silver, for 14 Years’ Service (2) ‘Clement C. Cook 1925.; Harold W. Churchill 1949’, both with integral ‘14 Years’ top silver riband bars, the first in case of issue; London and South Western Railway St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal for Meritorious First Aid Services ‘J. Martin 1903’; South Eastern and Chatham Railway St. John Ambulance Association Service Medal, bronze, for 7 Years’ Service ‘Augustus Tomsett 1917’, good very fine (5) £100-£140 --- The London & South Western Railway (LSWR), and the South Eastern & Chatham Railway (SE & CR) were both absorbed into the Southern Railway as part of the 1923 Grouping. The Southern Railway was nationalised in 1948, and absorbed into British Railways, meaning that the awards to Jarvis and Churchill will be amongst the last of these medals awarded. Augustus Frederick Tomsett was born in Ashford, Kent, and is recorded on the 1911 Census as a Railway Engine Fitter’s Assistant, South Eastern & Chatham Railway. He had previously served with the 2nd Battalion, East Kent Regiment in South Africa during the Boer War from 22 December 1899 to 1 October 1902 (entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Paardeberg, Driefontein, Relief of Kimberley, and Transvaal; and the King’s South Africa Medal with both date clasps); and then again with the East Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front from 1 April 1915. Sold with copied research.