Auction Catalogue

13 September 2023

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 293

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13 September 2023

Hammer Price:
£200

Pair: Acting Corporal F. Peacock, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, later Royal Irish Regiment, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 28 September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (38186 A. Cpl. F. Peacock. R.D. Fus.); Memorial Plaque (Frederick Peacock) all mounted for display in a glazed wooden display frame, the plaque pierced at 12 o’clock, otherwise extremely fine (3) £100-£140

Frederick Peacock was born in Gosport, Hampshire, and attested for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers at Portsmouth. He served with the them during the Great War, before transferring to the Royal Irish Regiment, and died of wounds on the Western Front on 28 September 1918. He is buried in Moeuvres Communal Cemetery Extension, France.