Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant C. W. Peacock, Royal Garrison Artillery

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (70212 C.Q.M. Sjt., R.G.A.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (70212 R.Q.M. Sjt., R.G.A.) first with edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £250-300

Charles Willie Peacock was born in 1868 in the Parish of St. John’s, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. A Draper by occupation, he attested for the Royal Artillery at Sunderland on 3 January 1889, aged 21 years, 7 months. With the Royal Artillery he served in Mauritius, April 1897-December 1900; Ceylon, December 1900-February 1903; India, December 1904-January 1907; Aden, January 1907-November 1908; and India, November 1908-April 1912. Peacock was promoted to Company Quartermaster Serjeant in March 1900 and in December 1902 he posted to the 13th Company, Royal Garrison Artillery. He was awarded the Army Long Service Medal in 1907, by Army Order 67. In July 1912 he was promoted to Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant and in September was posted to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he remained until the end of his service. For his service during the Great War he was awarded the Army Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette 16 October 1919). The recommendation for his M.S.M. reads:

‘For specific reward for exceptional services rendered in connection with training at home. This Warrant Officer has held his present appointment throughout the war and has worked indefatigably under the trying conditions of constant changes of subordinates. The large number of Cadets who have been trained at the Academy since the outbreak of war has been a great strain on the Q.M. Sgt. and the cheerful and capable manner in which he carried out his important duties has greatly conduced to the welfare of the Cadets. He has been previously recommended for reward.’

He was also mentioned for valuable services rendered in connection with the war, dated War Office, 25 March 1919. R.Q.M.S. Peacock was discharged on 30 April 1920. With copied service papers and with original photograph of the recipient in uniform, with his wife, Alice, who he married in 1891, and their three daughters.