Alexander; British Red Cross Society & Order of St John of Jerusalem. He was born in Tynemouth, Northumberland in 1876; in the 1911 census he was living in Wallsend and working as an electric craneman. He served as an orderly in France from 6-11-14 to 5-8-15 and transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps, nos: 2030 and 386509 (1st Northumbrian Field Ambulance); he then served in Salonica and was entitled to a Silver War Badge (no: B295969), being discharged at the age of 42. In the 1939 register he is living in Wallsend and is shown still working as an electric craneman. He died in 1959.
Documents available: Medal Index card; medal rolls;1911 census page; 1939 register page
Condition: GVF (replacement ribbon); please see photographs for detail
