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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 409

Three: Private P. H. Badcock, 1/1st Buckinghamshire Yeomanry (Royal Bucks Hussars), who was killed in action in Palestine in April 1917


1914-15 Star (1979 Pte. P. H. Badcock, Bucks. Yeo.); British War and Victory Medals (1979 Pte. P. H. Badcock, Bucks. Yeo.), extremely fine (3)

Percy Howard Badcock entered the Egypt theatre of war on 11 October 1915 and subsequently transferred to the Palestine operations.

It is likely that he was one of those killed as the regiment galloped across two miles of open plain. The left flank of the Imperial Mounted Division had been forced back by strong Turkish attacks; the 4th Light Horse Brigade withdrew at 12.30 p.m., the 3rd Light Horse Brigade shortly thereafter. The Berkshire Yeomanry and the classic deployment of 'C' Squadron, Buckinghamshire Yeomanry, saved the situation at Atawineh Ridge.

Badcock was 29 years old and came from Woking, Surrey, where he lived with his parents John and Florence at 1 Holly Bank, 56 Boundary Road; he is buried in Gaza War Cemetery.


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