IGS NORTH WEST FRONTIER 1936-37 to PTE T FORREST GREEN HOWARDS

Correctly impressed 4387446 PTE. T. FORREST. GREEN HOWARDS.

Condition GVF+

Forrest served with the 2nd Battalion The Green Howards in India and by 1938, he had returned to the U.K. and had been transferred to the Army Reserve. Award of medal and clasp confirmed on medal roll.

20 October 1938

Medal roll for I.G.S. 1936 ‘North West Frontier 1936-37’ listed a private with the 2nd Battalion The Green Howards.

Had been transferred to the Army Reserve and was residing in UK

265617 PRIVATE JOHN COMBER 1/1ST KENT CYCLE BATTALION

INDIA GENERAL SERVICE MEDAL (1908) (265617 PTE J. COMBER R W KENT R)

John Comber was born in 1881, and he enlisted into the Royal West Kent Regiment, Kent Cyclist (Reserve) Battalion in November 1914, he was 33 years old, married with one child. On 8 February 1916, he arrived in India with the 1st Battalion the Royal West Kent Regiment and served in the country for three years and 305 days, during which time he was awarded the I.G.S. (1908) ‘Afghanistan North West Frontier 1919’.

On his medal index card, he is initially listed as serving with the Royal West Kent (regimental number: 265617), but finishes his war service with the Kent Cycle Battalion (regimental number: TF/1402). Comber was also listed on the Kent Cyclist Battalion medal roll for the British War Medal and the Victory Medal.

Comber discharged from the Army on 31 March 1920.