| Surname: | Ashley |
| Initials: | G |
| Rank: | Sgt A/SSM |
| Army Number: | 366 |
| Notes: | MMP. Info from pension record: 9/10/89 he enlisted Canterbury, in the 1st Dragoon Guards No 3399. Born Woolwich, Kent, occupation Plumber. Transferred to MMP 13/12/1893. Served Home 9/10/1889 to 4/10/1899, South Africa 15/10/1899 to 23/10/1900, Home 24/10/1900 to 20/2/1903, Egypt 21/2/1903 to 13/3/1906, Home 14/3/1906 to 8/10/1910 to discharge at Aldershot time expired, age 39 years, served 21 years, conduct exemplary, address: Post Office, Standford, Hants. Re enlisted and served Home 23/2/1915 to 16/3/1915, Gallipoli 17/3/1915 to 24/1/1916, East African Exp Force 9/3/1916 to 5/6/1918, Home 6/6/1918 to 30/11/1918, discharged medically unfit for War Service, 30/11/1918. Awards: Long Service & Good Conduct Medal Army Order 77 of 1908 1915 Star, Victory and War Medal. First served abroad, (2b) Gallipoli but shown as Balkans 17/3/1915. George Ashley. A picture of Cpl Ashley by G T Day is in the Weekly Magazine in an article entitled General Buller's Shadow. Corporal George Ashley, Military Mounted Police, has been General Buller's shadow all through the war, having ridden behind him as orderly from the time he arrived in South Africa until the general's embarkation at Cape town en route for England. Ashley has returned with him. The corporal's admiration for General Buller is unbounded, and he recounts an instance of the general's coolness. One day a shell passed only a few feet away, when the general turned to Ashley and quietly said "Did you get that?" Ashley's reply was, "Not this time, sir." Info from Pension Index Card:- Ashley, George, MMP, 366, 30/11/18 to discharge, 11/M/10286, SFJ.1409, 112 Harrington Road, South Norwood, London EC, Stamp: Ad 1/1/19 at 8/3 from 1/12/18 to 2/12/19, Chelsea No. VV.50.1838, received 2/1/19,2/4/S/53/1. George Ashley. He has the same No. as Cpl A Mercer, MFP. Extract from the Hampshire Post and Southsea Observer 7 September 1906. William Marriott, alias William Bartlett, alias Harry Clanfield, a carpenter was brought up in custody on remand, charged with stealing a hammer and a twist-bit, valued at 3s 6d, the property of Arthur Haywood, a carpenter, at Bordon Camp, on the 25th of August. From the evidence of the prosecutor, P.C. Savage and P.S. Morris, it appeared that the prisoner and Haywood had been working on the Mission Hall at Bordon and that Haywood on missing the tools mentioned gave information to the police, who discovered the tools at the prisoner's lodgings at Kingsley in an ordinary carpenters basket. The prisoner admitted that the hammer was not his property but could not explain how it got into his basket. The twist bit he declared positively to be his own and that the marks by which prosecutor identified it were on all of a similar make. As the prisoner pleaded not guilty, he was committed for trial. Arising out of the search of the prisoner's lodgings he was further charged with being in possession of two odd socks, one clothes brush and one shoe brush, military necessaries, on the 27th of August at Kingsley. P.S. Morris, of the Hants Constabulary and Sergt. Ashley of the Military Mounted Police were the only witnesses. P.S Morris proved finding the articles when searching the prisoners lodgings on the date named and Sergt. Ashley proved that these articles had evidently belonged to a soldier at Bordon Camp. P.S. Morris explained that the numbers and marks on the brushes had been planed off, but that some of them were still faintly discernible. The prisoner said that the socks had been given to him by a soldier, whose name he did not know and averred that any time expired man had a right to do as he liked with his kit, as he himself was a time expired man from the Royal Fusiliers Militia and that the brushed belonged to him. Mr. Gadban: Why are the brushes marked "RFA." Prisoner: They are not. The Chairman told the prisoner that he would be fined 10s or one day's imprisonment, Thereupon the prisoner declared that he would write to his colonel. |
Decoration Record: | |
| Decoration: | Mention in Despatches (London Gazette: 29455 Page: 1197 Jan. 28, 1916) |
| Citation: | Med Exp Force. |
| Decoration: | Mention in Despatches (London Gazette: 30560 Page: 2890 March 7, 1918) |
| Citation: | East Africa. |
| Decoration: | Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette: IVA.8 AO.141/1949 Page: MS3 Requsition No 889 July 6, 1949) |
| Citation: | With Annuity, info found on WWI medal card. MSM not then listed on London Gazette at this time. |
| Decoration: | Queen's South Africa Medal (London Gazette: QSA Medal Roll WO 100/234 Page: 192 Oct. 16, 1901) |
| Citation: | MMP. Clasps: Belfast, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing's Nek.Roll annotated cross reference on Headquarer Staff Natal Field Force. Duplicated on Roll WO 100/234, 194 17/5/1902. |
| Decoration: | Silver War Badge (London Gazette: WO 329/2343 Page: List MPC/92 Dec. 15, 1918) |
| Citation: | Badge no. B51374. Enlisted 23/2/1915, Discharge 30/11/1918. KR 392 (xvi) AO VI Sep/1918. Age 45years 10months. Served abroad. |