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Auction: 1005 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 30

x Military Cross, G.V.R., reverse contemporarily engraved in upright sans-serif capitals, ´Henry Goold Pearce. Killed In Action July 15th 1917.´, nearly extremely fine, in distressed case of issue Estimate £ 450-550 M.C. London Gazette 1.1.1918 T/Lt. (A/ Capt) Henry Goold Pearce, R.E. M.I.D. London Gazette 14.12.1917 Pearce, Temp. Lt. (actg. Capt) H.G. (killed). Captain Henry Goold Pearce, M.C., born Hurstpierpoint, Sussex, 1886; resided in Rhodesia prior to the outbreak of the Great War; served as a Corporal in the Northern Rhodesian Rifles, from 10.12.1914; discharged 30.4.1915 to return to the United Kingdom to take a commission in the Royal Engineers; served on the Western Front with the 171st Tunnelling Company, wounded 25.4.1917; the 171st Tunnelling Company were involved in the laying of 24 mines as part of the battle of Messine, from June 1917; Pearce was killed in action, 15.7.1917, and is buried in the Poperinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium.

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