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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 474

Pair: Private P. C. Burgess, 1/4th Battalion, Royal Sussex Regiment, who was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza in March 1917

British War and Victory Medals (4-2953 Pte. P. C. Burgess, R. Suss. R.), polished, good fine (2)

Percy Charles Burgess was born in East Grinstead, Sussex, where he was employed at Woods, the local butchers. He enlisted in the Royal Sussex Regiment in Tonbridge, Kent and first entered a theatre of war in 1916, or later.

He was killed in action at the First Battle of Gaza on 26 March 1917; another fine pair of medals to a casualty killed during the actions described in the preceding groups. Aged 19, and the son of Robert and Lucy Burgess of 16 West Street, East Grinstead, Sussex, he has no known grave and is commemorated on the Jerusalem Memorial.


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Estimate
£70 to £90