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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 91

Four: Lieutenant-Colonel P. Grove-White, Middlesex Regiment, late Manchester Regiment

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lieut: P. G. White, Manch: Rgt:); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt: P. G. White. Midd'x R.); British War and Victory Medals, mounted as worn, very fine (4)

Pierce Grove-White was born on 13 October 1882 at Stanmore, Middlesex, the son of Colonel James Grove-White and was educated at Haileybury. During the Boer War he served as a Lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment and thence as a Lance-Corporal (No. 697) in the Port Elizabeth Town Guard (Medal & four clasps issued in March 1904). Thence serving in the East Indies in 1905, Grove-White was in Aden from October 1912-December 1913.

With the outbreak of the Great War, he served in France with the 1st Battalion, Middlesex Regiment from 11 August 1914. Posted to be Second-in-Command of a Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment from 14 April 1917, he Commanded that Battalion from 8-25 May 1917. He latterly returned to the 4th Battalion, Middlesex Regiment and applied for his Medals whilst serving in Singapore. Living at Hythe, Kent in retirement, Grove-White died on 8 August 1953; sold together with a riband bar and cap Badge, besides copied research.

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Sold for
£750

Starting price
£280