India General Service Medal clasp Punjab Frontier 1897-98 named 758 SERGT J DEEMING 1ST BN SOM LT INFT, 1914/15 Star named 7592 SMJR J A DERMING SOM LI, British War and Victory Medals named 7592 WO CL1 J A DERMING SOM LI & Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal named 24556 GSMJR J A DEEMING HANTS R.Note surname spelling different on some medals.
James Alfred Deemingwas born in Worcester and attested for the Somerset Light Infantry at Bath on 29 September 1884, aged 18 years. He served overseas in Gibraltar from November 1891 to December 1893 and then in India from December 1893 to April 1900, and saw active service in the Mohmand Campaign of 1897. He was discharged in the rank of Colour Sergeant on 22 June 1911, but with the onset of war he re-enlisted in the Somerset Light Infantry on 11 September 1914 and served as a Sergeant-Major on the Western Front from 9 September 1915. Latterly serving as a Garrison Sergeant-Major in the Hampshire Regiment, he was discharged Class Z Reserve on 10 February 1919.
Sold with the recipient’s original parchment Certificate of Service 1911; Marriage Certificate; Certificate of Transfer to Reserve 1919; four photographs; and copied research.
