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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 436

Hampshire Regiment

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Pair: Sergeant J. Brimmell, 2/4th Battalion, Hampshire Regiment, who was killed in action in Palestine on 23 November 1917

British War and Victory Medals (2485 Sjt. J. Brimmell, Hamps. R.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (John Brimmell), Buckingham Palace memorial scroll and Record Office forwarding letter for his campaign medals, dated 29 September 1921, extremely fine

Pair: 2nd Lieutenant C. E. S. Brimmell, Worcestershire Regiment, who was wounded in France with the 6th Battalion

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut. C.E.S. Brimmell), extremely fine (5)

John Brimmell was born in Canterbury, Kent but was living at Devonport at the time of his enlistment in the Hampshire Regiment. Drafted to the 2/4th Battalion, he did not enter a theatre of war until 1916, or later and he was killed in action in Palestine on 23 November 1917, whilst serving as part of 233rd Brigade of the 75th (West County) Division.

Aged 23, he was the son of the Rev. W. Langdon Brimmell and his wife, Alice and is buried in the Jerusalem War Cemetery.

Charles Ernest Sydney Brimmell - John's brother - joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. in 1915. Having then attended an Officer Cadet course, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment in November 1916. He went to France in April 1917 and was badly wounded, as a result of which his final appointment was at the War Office; he was living at 17 Stoke Terrace, Devonport at the time of applying for his campaign medals and was awarded the Silver War Badge.


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