Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant H. M. Brocklesby, Royal Field Artillery, late Honourable Artillery Company, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 1 July 1917

1914-15 Star (370. Gnr. H. M. Brocklesby, H.A.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. H. M. Brocklesby) in named card boxes of issue, extremely fine (3) £140-£180

Horace Markham Brocklesby was born in Islington in 1885, the son of Albert Brocklesby who worked as a clerk at the Royal Courts of Justice. Following in his father’s footsteps, Horace was appointed 3rd Class Clerk to the Supreme Court of Judicature on 26 January 1912, but his apprenticeship was cut short by the outbreak of the Great War. Enlisting in the Honourable Artillery Company as Gunner 4 August 1914, he was later appointed to a commission in the Royal Field Artillery on 13 October 1916 and served with the 113th Battery, R.F.A. He was killed in action on 1 July 1917, and is buried in Ramscappelle Road Military Cemetery, Belgium.