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Auction: 23111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 933

The Battle of the Somme M.M. awarded to Sergeant G. H. Peet, 1/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorial Force), who later added to his laurels with a 'mention' on 4 January 1917 only to be killed in action on 22 November 1917

Military Medal, G.V.R. (1978 A.Cpl. G. H. Peet. 1/4 Linc: R. - T.F.), good very fine

M.M. London Gazette 11 November 1916.

George Henry Peet was born at Lincoln, Lincolnshire in 1895, the son of Kate Peet of 9 Walnut Place, Lincoln, his father Henry Peet died when he was only five forcing all of the family to pull together to provide for themselves. His siblings quickly found work in a Pill Factory at the age of only fourteen while Peet and his twin brother Walter soon had work. Peet himself was working as an apprentice Engine Fitter by 1911.

Entering the Great War in France with the 1st/4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment (T.F.) on 1 March 1915 his was the first Territorial Division to join the fighting on the Ypres Salient. Here they saw action during the German fire attack at Hooge and later the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt. Posted briefly to Egypt at the end of 1915 the Division was swiftly returned to France for service in the Battle of the Somme.

Here they went into action on the first day at Gommecourt in conjunction with the attack by the London Division. Notably through the entire Somme Offensive the Battalion is only listed as engaged on this day, suggesting that it was here that Peet’s medal was won.

They were in action again during the British advance on the Ancre in January 1917 and it was here that Peet earned himself a ‘mention’ to go with his recently gazetted M.M. 1st/4th Battalion saw heavy fighting in 1917 seeing further action at Ypres and during the German withdrawal towards the Hindenburg Line.

Throughout Peet was at the forefront, firstly as a Corporal and later a Sergeant, however he was killed in action during the opening days of the Cambrai Offensive on 22 November 1917. He is buried at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe; sold together with copied research comprising M.I.C., honour and casualty rolls as well as census data and Commonwealth War Graves certificates along with extracts from The Lincolnshire Regiment in the Great War and the London Gazette.

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