Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private E. J. Peach, 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, killed in action, 16 September 1916

1914-15 Star (14934 Pte., C. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (14934 Pte., C. Gds.) nearly extremely fine (5)
£120-160

Ernest John Peach was born in Warwick and enlisted at Birmingham. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Coldstream Guards, he was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 16 September 1916. He was buried in the Guards’ Cemetery, Lesboeufs.

With two identity discs; the original forwarding slip for the 1914-15 Star, addressed to ‘Mrs C. F. Peach, 5 Elsie Place, Bright St., Aston’, with modern photos of his gravestone and copied casualty details.