Captain R.J.
Gold-Spilsbury
(formerly 1859961 Warrant Officer Class 2)
Royal Engineers
by
Lieutenant Colonel Edward De Santis ©2008
Gold-Spilsbury enlisted in the Royal Engineers in 1919 or 1920. His surname was originally Spilsbury, but he changed it to Gold-Spilsbury about 1932. The following is a list of significant events in his military career:
1920: Won the Royal Engineers Training Battalion Silver Inter-Platoon Football Medal.
1922: Won the Army Rifle Association Bronze Medal, 2nd Prize, in the Corps Match.
1922-23: Won the Egyptian Command Bronze Football Medal.
1923: Won the Cairo YMCA Silver Football Medal.
1925: Won the Army Rifle Association Silver Medal in the Corps Shield Match.
2 January 1928: Promoted to the rank of Lance Sergeant.
1928: Won the Scottish Command Bronze Hockey Medal. Serving with a Territorial Army unit in Edinburgh.
25 October 1930: Promoted to the rank of Sergeant.
February 1932: Posted to Catterick in Ireland. Assigned to the 55th Field Company, R.E.
1935: Serving as a Platoon Sergeant Instructor at Chelmsford.
27 February 1936: Promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Class 2 (Company Sergeant Major). In possession of a First Class Certificate of Education. Assigned as Company Sergeant Major of the 59th Field Company, R.E. at Canterbury.
12 October 1940: Given a Regular Army Emergency Commission in the rank of Lieutenant (Honorary Captain).