[ 1290 ] Rare ww1 British medal group Territorial war service medal Royal Scots

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Nice group of 4, BWM,VICTORY, TERRITORIAL WAR SERVICE & TERRITORIAL EFFICIENCY MEDAL - all 4 are correctly impressed named to the same soldier BWM & Vic medal correctly named 1630 Cpl A Kerr R Scots, the Territorial was service medal is 1630 Pte A Kerr R Scots ( incorrect ribbon but close ) & the Effic medal is 2203712 1630 Cpl A A Kerr R E. some info was kindly given to me today from Kevin in the UK,see below info of this soldier 7th Bn. Royal Scots, Cpl 1630(303585) ?th Bn. Scottish Rifles, 40174 The Machine Gun Corps 72252 The Royal Engineers, 2203712. The 1/7th (Leith) Bn. The Royal Scots was heading south by train to embark by boat to reinforce the troops on the Gallipoli peninsula but a human error with the signal points had another train heading towards it at speed and both crashing causing a huge fire ball and over 200 deaths at Quintinshill Near Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire on the 22nd May 1915 this still to date the worst British rail disaster with half the troop train troops surviving going by his service number he was more than likely on that train and later proceeded overseas probably redirected to Egypt (Palestine) or even later to France but unsure So from one horror to go overseas and be witness to another. A true soldier at that And a very important medal group and rare as you know. These are a hard to find combo of medals & is a complete group, he could not get the star if he had the Territorial war service medal. completely unresearched due to it being a Brit group.
Price-$900

The Territorial Force War Medal was a campaign medal awarded to members of the British Territorial Force and Territorial Force Nursing Services who served overseas in Ww 1,
It is the rarest of the five British Great War medals.

The medal was established in April 1920 for award to members of the Territorial Force and Territorial Force Nursing Services who volunteered for service overseas on or before 30 September 1914, and served overseas. They had to:have been serving with the force on 4 August 1914 or
have completed four years service with the force before 4 August 1914 and rejoined the force on or before 30 September 1914
In addition provided they:
Undertook, either verbally or by written agreement on or before 30 September 1914 to serve outside the United Kingdom, such agreement being operative after 4 August 1914, and
Have served outside the United Kingdom between 5 August 1914 and 11 November 1918 (both dates inclusive; the last date was in 1918 though the years on the reverse said 1914-19) and
Did not qualify for the 1914 Star or 1914-15 Star