A WW1 ‘Western Front’  M.B.E. group of three awarded to Second Lieutenant F. M. Farmer, Army Service Corps

Frank Morley Farmer was born at Liverpool on 7 October 1877 and was educated at Merchant Taylor's School and University College Liverpool. Having qualified, he served some nine years as the Prosecuting Solicitor to the County Council of West Yorkshire at Wakefield County Hall before the outbreak of the Great War.

Farmed was commissioned Second Lieutenant into the Army Service Corps in July 1917 and served at Havre with No. 8 Divisional Supply Column and on Railhead Supply Duties to 1st Army. He was advanced Lieutenant in January 1919

Below is an extract from a news article in The Yorkshire Post, 3rd March 1923, regarding the appointment of Frank Morley Farmer, M.B.E. (Mil) –

NEW TOWN CLERK OF PONTEFRACT. Out of 34 applicants, the Pontefract Town Council have appointed Mr. Frank Morley Farmer, LL.B., M.B.E. (Mil.) to the position of Town Clerk and Clerk to the Education of Mr. W. Haddock.  The Slare commences at £760, with annual increments of £50 to £850.  Mr. Farmer, who is a son of the Town Clerk of Bootle, had a distinguished scholastic and educational career, and passed his final examination as a solicitor with honours.  He has had considerable experience and training in London, and after a couple of years as assistant to Sir Samuel G. Johnson, Town Clerk and Clerk of the Peace of the City of Nottingham, was unanimously appointed in open competition to the position of assistant solicitor to the Bottle Corporation.  Five year later he was appointed assistant solicitor to the West Riding County Council, as prosecuting solicitor and general assistant, in which capacity he has frequently apparated in every on the 43 Petty Sessional Courts of the county.  His present salary is £744, so that at the outset the change involves some financial loss.

The Council also appointed Mr. Beaumont Hudson, of Normanton, to the vacant gas managership, at £300 per annum.  There were 81 applications for the position.

M.B.E. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

The medals are mounted for display, sold with copied research, and are as follows -
The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, 1st Type, Military Division Member's (M.B.E.) breast Badge, silver; British War and Victory Medals, 2. LIEUT. F. M. FARMER.

Condition, good very fine 

Lieutenant Farmer is not entitled to a 1914/15 Star.