Regular Army Long Service Good Conduct Medal Pair, Welsh Guards

GVR Army LSGC, with ?Regular Army? bar suspension (2730053 GDSMN C. S. HUGHES M.S.M. W.Gds).and his WW1 Civilisation Medal. One of England's premier regiments, and part of the Her Majesty's Household Guards Division. By the time of the First World War the most senior of the Guards Regiments, the Grenadier Guards, prepared to celebrate their 260th anniversary. At about the same time the youngest of the Guards Regiments, the Welsh Guards, was just being formed. During the Great War, the Guards served in every major campaign on the western front, from the early August days of 1914 at Mons, straight through to the occupation of Cologne after the Armistice in 1919. In 1915, at the request of King George V, the five Guards Regiments were brought together into their own division: The Guards Division. As their own division, the Guards continued to build a reputation as a very disciplined and dependable division that exceeded all expectations. At the end of the war, King George V honored the individual privates of the Guards Division with a title aside from Private. They would from that point on, respectfully be known as... Guardsmen. In December 1919 Guardsman Claude Hughes was awarded the MSM the Meritorious Service Medal, that medal was sadly lost

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