Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria to include a Fine Collection of Napoleonic Medals

The Great War memorial plaque issued in remembrance of Private P. T. Winchester, Worcestershire Regiment, who was killed in action in Gallipoli in August 1915

Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (Percy Thomas Winchester), good very fine £100-120

Percy Thomas Winchester was killed in action on 6 August 1915, on which date the 4th Battalion, Worcestershire Regiment launched an attack against The Vineyard feature - cut down by machine-gun fire from the front and both flanks, hardly a man reached the enemy’s trenches and, after one hour’s fighting, only 30 men under a Sergeant were still in action. In fact, just 12 men were able to withdraw to their starting line after midnight, 16 officers and 752 other ranks having been killed, wounded or posted missing.

Winchester, the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Winchester of 10 Market Street, Maidstone, Kent, was 33 years old. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.