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Auction: 23112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 545

A tragic collection of two awarded to brothers, one killed during the Great War

Pair: Private H. P. Truscott, 6th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, who was killed in action on 26 September 1915

British War and Victory Medals (19533 Pte. H. P. Truscott. D. of Corn. L. I.), nearly extremely fine (2)

Pair: Sergeant G. P. Truscott, Special Constabulary

Defence Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1 clasp, Long Service 1949 loose, mounted as worn previously with brother's medals, very fine (2)

Harry Pope Truscott was born at Falmouth, Cornwall in 1897, the son of Herbert and Ann Truscott and one of seven brothers. His father died young and his mother re-married William Smith in 1901, having a child (Truscott's half-brother) the next year. Enlisting at Falmouth with the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry, he was posted to the 6th Battalion and entered the war in France on 3 August 1915.

At this time the unit was stationed at Ypres and they were to see heavy but intermittent fighting there over the next few months. They were stationed in the Divisional reserve in Mid-September, most notably during an attack by the 42nd Brigade north of Hooge on 24 September. Passing the next day in the dugouts they were later relieved and marched to GHQ at Roulers railway station. They were still here the next day when Truscott was listed as killed in action, he was likely confirmed dead having been posted missing after being killed by the German artillery during the attack two days before. He is commemorated upon the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial and was survived by his mother, full brothers and a half-brother. Notably his half-brother was to serve in the Second World War, being taken prisoner of war by the Japanese at the Fall of Singapore; sold together with copied research comprising an extract from the West Briton and Cornwall Advertiser, census information and registry of effects as well as a Battalion war diary extract, Commonwealth War Graves certificate and research on the recipient's half-brother.

Further entitled to the 1914-15 Star.

Gordon Pope Truscott was born at Falmouth, Cornwall in 1895, the son of Herbert and Ann Truscott. He was aged twenty upon the death of his younger brother Harry Pope Truscott on 26 September 1915 and lost another brother, Herbert the next year. Truscott died at Plymouth in 1990; sold together with copied census data and a Royal Masonic Institution for Boys, Steward's Badge, 1964, by J.R. Gaunt.

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