Orders, Decorations and Medals

A rare Great War M.M. and Two Bars awarded to Private H. Brooker, Royal Army Medical Corps, who won all of his decorations within a year and was one of just two members of his corps so honoured: he was killed in action in August 1917, shortly before the announcement of his third M.M.

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second and Third Award Bars (63805 Pte. H. Brooker, 138/F.A. R.A.M.C.), minor edge bruising, very fine £1600-1800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Brian Kieran Collection.

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M.M. London Gazette 6 January 1917.

Bar to M.M. London Gazette 16 August 1917.

Second Bar to M.M. London Gazette 28 September 1917.

Herbert Brooker, who was born in Broadbottom, Cheshire and enlisted at Rochdale, was awarded all of his decorations for gallantry in France and Flanders, and was killed in action on 9 August 1917, while serving in 138th Field Ambulance, R.A.M.C. He is buried in the Voormezeele Enclosure (No. 1/2) at Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium; his MIC entry confirms his entitlement to the British War and Victory Medals.