Scarce ISM (GVI) award to Foreign Office Home Service Messenger plus WW1 pair and dog tag (Royal Artillery)

WW1 pair (with original ribbons) correctly impressed to 68799 Gnr. A.H. Currell. R.A. and matching dog tag confirming his religion as Church of England and his unit as Royal Garrison Artillery, plus a Imperial Service Medal in Box of issue named in upright capitals to Albert Henry Currell. The clasp at the top of the ribbon is missing its pin, otherwise all medals in good condition.

The medals are accompanied by an original cutting from the front page of the Daily Express for April 4th 1929, which shows a bowler hatted Prince George "Leaving the Foreign Office where he started work yesterday." The figure to the right of him has been identified in a contemporary hand as Albert Currell. Ironically the ISM bears the effigy of King George VI, who Prince George later became.

Currell's award of the Imperial Service Medal is confirmed in the Supplement to the London Gazette of 24th June 1952, page 3460 (a copy of this page will be supplied). This medal is scarce to a Foreign Office messenger.

Code: 52836