WW1 Victory Medal – 2nd Lieutenant J. L. Mather – Army Service Corps Officer
A single British Victory Medal correctly named to:
2. LIEUT. J. L. MATHER.
John Lees Mather
Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps
Commissioned on 28th March 1918
Entered France on 18th May 1918, serving on the Western Front during the final phases of the First World War. Officers in the ASC were essential to the functioning of the British Army, responsible for transport, supply, and logistics in increasingly difficult conditions.
Born 30 November 1880, Mather was a bank clerk at the time of the 1911 Census, living at 24 Keppel Road, Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. His address at the time of commission is recorded as 12 St Brannocks Road, also in Chorlton-cum-Hardy.
After the war, Mather remained in Manchester, becoming a Bank Manager, and by 1939 was living with his wife and two children. He died on 27 November 1959.
His full service record is available at The National Archives, Kew (not held with the medal).
An officer’s Victory Medal to a man from Manchester who served in France during the crucial closing stages of WW1.
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