A Small Collection of Medals to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment (Territorial Force)

Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (525 L.Cpl. E. F. Pannell. 5/Essex Regt.) mounted as worn on original mounting pin, nearly extremely fine £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment (Territorial Force).

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Ernest Frederick Pannell was born at Layer-de-la-Haye, Essex, on 25 January 1876 and served with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion, Essex Regiment, from April 1901. Transferring to the 5th Battalion, Essex Regiment, on the formation of the Territorial Force in 1908, he was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 8 of January 1914, and was presented with his medal in Colchester on ‘Territorial Sunday’, 7 June 1914, by Colonel S. C. F. Johnson, D.S.O. (who would be captured and taken Prisoner of War in August 1914).

Embodied on 5 August 1914, Pannell did not proceed overseas, serving at home with the 2/5th Battalion. Advanced Sergeant Drummer on 1 July 1916, he transferred to the Army Pay Corps on 9 December 1918, and was disembodied on 13 May 1919. He died in Colchester in 1965.