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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 451

Pair: Private H. Pocock, 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, who was killed in action on 22 July 1917, a little over a week before the Battle of Pilckem Ridge and the opening attacks of the Battle of Passchendaele

British War and Victory Medals (17848 Pte. H. Pocock, C. Gds.), good very fine (2)


Henry Pocock was the son of Robert Pocock of Burrow Bridge, Bridgewater, Somerset. He was killed in action aged just 21 and is buried at Canada Farm Cemetery, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium. The cemetery largely contains the graves of men who died at a dressing station which was located within a farmhouse near the site from June to October 1917; Henry rests alongside 8 other men, all Privates of the 1st Battalion, Coldstream Guards, all of whom died on the same day.

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