A Victorian Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Quartermaster Sergeant Charles Gilbert...

A Victorian Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal to Quartermaster Sergeant Charles Gilbert Manfield, Royal Artillery, swivelling suspension and small reverse lettering (18249. QR. M: SGT. C.G. MANFIELD. R.A.), engraved in serif capitals, slight forward bend to suspension, otherwise nearly extremely fine and attractively toned; together with a commemorative of tribute medal engraved to the same man from his comrades "on his departure from Sunderland 1888", openwork design involving a shield supported by scrolls, reverse stamped '10CT', very fine. [2]

Born August 31st 1865, in Woolwich, the son of a Bombadier in the Royal Artillery; attested at Sheffield 9th November 1870; discharged 12th February 1902 with conduct recorded as exemplary. The occasion for his departure from Sunderland appears to have been his transfer from Northern Division RA to Western Division. Found in the 1911 census as an Army Pensioner living having returned to Sunderland.