Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ D.C.M. group of four awarded to Second Lieutenant Worthington Herbert Pennicott, Royal Garrison Artillery

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (142369 B.S. Mjr., 110/Hy. By. R.G.A.); British War and Victory Medals (142369 W.O. Cl. II, R.A.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (142369 B.S. Mjr., R.G.A.) correction to first two digits of service number; together with a Silver Medal, inscribed, ‘Peace 1914-19 W. H. Pennicott’, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, minor edge bruising, good very fine (lot) £1000-1200

D.C.M. London Gazette 30 October 1918. ‘B.S.M., R.G.A. (Lynmouth)’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty when two men of a working party were seriously wounded. He went to their assistance under intense shell fire, attended to them in the open, and remained with them until the shelling stopped. Eventually he succeeded in getting both men away to a place of safety.’

Worthington Herbert Pennicott was born in 1888. He enlisted into the Royal Garrison Artillery on 15 February 1909. Embodied for service with the R.G.A. in August 1914, he was later awarded the D.C.M. for his bravery in action on the Western Front. He was disembodied on 17 March 1919 but promoted to the temporary rank of 2nd Lieutenant in the R.G.A. in May 1919 and was appointed a Warrant Officer 2nd Class in the Territorial Forces in January 1920. Worthington Herbert Pennicott died on 11 June 1921.

With recipient’s Commission Document appointing him a Temporary 2nd Lieutenant in the R.G.A., 9 May 1919; Warrant Document appointing him a Warrant Officer Class II, 12 January 1920; T.F. Embodiment Notice, 1914; letter of congratulations from Lieutenant-General Sir Aylmer Hunter-Weston, Commanding VIII Army Corps, 4 July 1918, with associated Brigade letter; Routine Orders Sheet, listing the award of the D.C.M.; Certificate of Disembodiment, 17 March 1919; Transfer Statement of Clothing & Necessaries, February 1919; Protection Certificate, March 1919; medal forwarding slip for the British War and Victory Medals; a copy of the Third Supplement of the London Gazette, 30 October 1918, stamped and addressed to ‘B. H. Pennicott Esq., Lyn Cottage, Lynmouth, N. Devon’; a copy of the New Testament, inscribed, ‘With love, thoughts & prayers from your wife’; a copy of the recipient’s Will; Christmas Card from various Devonshire Officials, 1914; Christmas Card from Pennicott to his wife, 1917; a newspaper cutting announcing the award of the D.C.M.; photographs (4); penknife with ‘mother-of-pearl handle; identity bracelet inscribed, ‘B.S.M. Pennicott 142369 R.G.A. C.E.; a cloth arm band bearing a red crown, internally printed, ‘Recruiting Office, Colston Hall, Bristol’; a pair of shoulder titles, ‘T/RGA/Devon’; sundry other badges (15) mainly ‘Artillery’ related; a whistle, and a quantity of buttons.

See lot 1320 for his son’s medals.