Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private G. Pearce, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who died of wounds in November 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (10023 Pte. G. Pearce, 1/R. Berks. R.); British War and Victory Medals (10023 Pte. G. Pearce, R. Berks. R.), together with related Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (George Pearce), and Buckingham Palace scroll, mounted on card, good very fine and better (4) £180-220

George Pearce, who was born in Boxford, Berkshire and enlisted in the Royal Berkshire Regiment at Newbury, died of wounds on 13 November 1914, while serving in the 1st Battalion at Herenthage Wood, where his unit was subjected to constant bombardment and infantry attack. Pearce was 20 years of age and is buried in the Poperinghe Old Military Cemetery, Belgium.