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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 727

Pair: Private W. B Peacock, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action during the Somme Offensive on 3 September 1916

British War and Victory Medals (26087 Pte. W. B. Peacock. L. N. Lan. R.), mounted for wear, good very fine (2)

William Bletzo Peacock was born at Somersham, Cambridgeshire in 1891, the son of Samuel and Fanny Peacock of 25 Main Street, Somersham. Working as a Hawker at a Green Grocers prior to the Great War before enlisting at Huntingdon with the 9th Battalion, Loyal North Lancashire Regiment. Peacock was killed during the fighting on 3 September 1916 and is commemorated upon the Thiepval Memorial.

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