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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 548

Pair: Sapper P. E. Brock, 35th Signal Company, Royal Engineers, who was invalided as a result of exposure to Gas on 22 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (69102 Spr. P. E. Brock. R.E.), good very fine (2)

Percy Ernest Brock was born at Reading on 6 April 1894. Enlisting with the Royal Engineers on 1 March 1915 he served with the 39th Signal Company as a Pioneer until 15 July when he was posted to Ireland. Remaining in Ireland until November 1915 Brock entered the war in France on 29 January 1916 with 35th Signal Company. Here he served as a Telegraphist with the rank of Sapper until 22 October 1917 when he was exposed to the effects of a Mustard Gas Shell and taken to 2nd Canadian General Hospital. Transferred to 1st Southern General Hospital on 3 November 1917 he was transferred to the reserves on 22 April 1919. Surviving the war in spite of his injuries Brock lived on until 1989 when he died in Kent; sold together with copied census data, photographs and service records.

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£50

Starting price
£30