Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private P. H. Briscoe, 15th Battalion (The 1st Central Ontario Regiment), Canadian Infantry, who was killed in action on the occasion of the first use of chlorine gas by the Germans at Ypres in April 1915

1914-15 Star (27045 Pte. P. H. Briscoe, 15/Can. Inf.); British War and Victory Medals (27045 Pte. P. H. Briscoe, 15-Can. Inf.), together with the recipient’s Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Philip Harrison Briscoe), and Buckingham Palace memorial scroll, the whole contained in a contemporary glazed leather display case, extremely fine (4) £400-500

Philip Harrison Briscoe was born in London in April 1895, and enlisted in the Canadian Overseas Expeditionary Force at Valcartier in September 1914. Posted to the 15th Battalion, Canadian Infantry - The 1st Central Ontario Regiment - he was posted missing, presumed killed at Ypres on the 23-24 April 1915, on which date the Germans first launched a chlorine gas attack. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.