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A Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, Bangor, Penrhyn Lodge presentation 'Jewel' awarded...

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A Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, Bangor, Penrhyn Lodge presentation ‘Jewel’ awarded to Sergeant T. A. Griffiths, D.C.M., 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, attached 3rd Battalion Nigeria Regiment, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1915, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the Bros. of the Penrhyn Lodge No.1680 to Bro. T. A. Griffiths For winning by conspicuous Bravery in the Cameroons the Honour of the D.C.M.’, with enamelled ‘Bangor’ suspension bar and enamelled Buffaloes top pin, in case of issue; together with a Skewen and Neath Abbey Sailors and Soldiers Presentation Fund, a post-Great War fundraising celluloid coated paper pin back badge; a silver shield as sometime affixed to a presentation piece with three fixing pins remaining, engraved ‘Presented to W. J. Parcelle by Fforestfach Discharged Soldiers 18 July 1921’; and a Tredegar Peace Celebration 1919, thick cardboard disk bearing a photographic image of King George V to the centre, generally very fine (4) £60-£80 --- Thomas Arthur Griffiths served in the Great War as 14599 Sergeant in the 16th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, attached 3rd Battalion, Nigeria Regiment in the West African Field Force. For his services he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (London Gazette 19 August 1916, ‘For conspicuous gallantry and initiative. After escorting a convoy, he heard that a party of the enemy were within 20 miles. On his own initiative he made a night march with only seven men, and surprised and captured 20 of the enemy.’); and was also Mentioned in Despatches.
A Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes, Bangor, Penrhyn Lodge presentation ‘Jewel’ awarded to Sergeant T. A. Griffiths, D.C.M., 16th Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, attached 3rd Battalion Nigeria Regiment, silver and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1915, silver and enamel, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the Bros. of the Penrhyn Lodge No.1680 to Bro. T. A. Griffiths For winning by conspicuous Bravery in the Cameroons the Honour of the D.C.M.’, with enamelled ‘Bangor’ suspension bar and enamelled Buffaloes top pin, in case of issue; together with a Skewen and Neath Abbey Sailors and Soldiers Presentation Fund, a post-Great War fundraising celluloid coated paper pin back badge; a silver shield as sometime affixed to a presentation piece with three fixing pins remaining, engraved ‘Presented to W. J. Parcelle by Fforestfach Discharged Soldiers 18 July 1921’; and a Tredegar Peace Celebration 1919, thick cardboard disk bearing a photographic image of King George V to the centre, generally very fine (4) £60-£80 --- Thomas Arthur Griffiths served in the Great War as 14599 Sergeant in the 16th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, attached 3rd Battalion, Nigeria Regiment in the West African Field Force. For his services he was awarded the Distinguished Conduct Medal (London Gazette 19 August 1916, ‘For conspicuous gallantry and initiative. After escorting a convoy, he heard that a party of the enemy were within 20 miles. On his own initiative he made a night march with only seven men, and surprised and captured 20 of the enemy.’); and was also Mentioned in Despatches.

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