WW1 Medal Pair to Black Norfolk Regiment.

A WW1 Victory and British War medal correctly named to 32000 Warrant Officer (Class 2) Alexander Black of the Norfolk Regiment.
Alexander Black was born in Govan, Glasgow 1880. In the 1911 census he is living at 53 Spitalfields, Thorp Hamlet, Norwich, as a border with his wife Annie and worked as a labourer on the railways. He enlisted into the Norfolk Yeomanry on 22nd September 1915 as private in the 3/1st. (Yeomanry) battalion but very soon rose through the ranks and by January 1916 he was promoted to Serjeant and posted to the 17th then the 9th battalion and sent overseas to France arriving in the December. Probably being transferred to this battalion after the disaster at the Quadrilateral in September 1916. Now serving with the 71st brigade, 6th division, he saw action at the Battle of Hill 70, during this time he received a gun shot wound to his right ear and temple and transferred to the Labour Corps, probably for light duties. He was promoted to Company Serjeant Major on the 8th October 1917 and shortly after transferred to the Royal Fusiliers and to the 43rd garrison battalion RF at the start of its formation. This battalion was primarily manned by troops who had been rated as medically unfit for front line duty, as a CSM Black would have proved a very useful addition to the unit. The men NCO’s and officers of this battalion were usually still under medical supervision and hospital care and came from all regiments. Their main duties were to guard base deports in the Rouen area near the major hospitals. Black was finally discharged in the May of 1919 as a Warrant Officer II.
This pair came with the other medal to Alexander Black, a 1914 star to Scots Greys. It has taken a lot of work to discover that these are two different men, although they could have been twins. Both were born in Scotland and lived in Norwich, Norfolk. It looks like the star was issued to WOII A Black Norfolk Reg as a mistake. Both men’s service and pension papers are mixed with a third man of the same name who served with the Royal Scots. It is a real mess which caused the mix up with the medal issue.
This pair of medals are in excellent condition and come with the correct medal index card and pages from his service records.

Code: 29863