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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 349

A Great War M.M. awarded to Private C. E. Pook, Machine Gun Corps

Military Medal, G.V.R. (81569 Pte. C. E. Pook. 191/Coy. M.G.C.), nearly extremely fine

M.M. Edinburgh Gazette 22 October 1917.

Charles Ernest Pook was born in 1877 and lived at 47 Henry Street, Vauxhall. A pickle fireman by profession, he attested for the Machine Gun Corps on 31 January 1916 and saw service in France from 11 February 1917-22 February 1919. Within months of travelling overseas, he was admitted to hospital at Etaples suffering from diarrhoea, his condition noted as dangerously ill. Recovered, he served with distinction on the Western Front and was awarded the Military Medal. Demobilised on 24 March 1919, Pook returned home to his wife Jennie Amelia and five children, being awarded a 20% disability award due to rheumatism attributed to war service; sold with copied service record and MIC.


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Sold for
£210

Starting price
£170