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24 & 25 February 2016

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Lot

№ 278

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24 February 2016

Hammer Price:
£170

Three: Lieutenant A. E. H. Parrott, West Yorkshire Regiment, late Middlesex Regiment, wounded in action and a prisoner-of-war of the Germans

1914-15 Star (PS-2300 Pte., Midd’x. R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.) later issue impressed naming, mounted as worn, good very fine (3) £100-140

Albert Ernest Hayward Parrott was born in Finsbury Park, London, on 24 April 1886, the son of Albert George Parrott, a Doctor practising in Shanghai. He was educated at Red Hill House, Bristol and Clarence School, Weston-super-Mare. In 1915 he was employed as a Merchant living at 20 Adam Street, Portman Square, London. He joined the 16th (Service) Battalion (Public Schools) Middlesex Regiment and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 17 November 1915. He remained in France until 14 April 1916 when he returned home to take up a commission in the 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. He returned to France in September 1916. In March 1918 he was a Platoon Commander in ‘C’ Company, 1st Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment. On the morning of 21 March 1918, according to the War Diary, ‘An enormous enemy attack broke at 5 am with intense barrages and much gas shelling’. Lieutenant Albert Parrott was wounded by shrapnel to the leg and upper thigh and was captured. He was held in the P.O.W. camp at Pronville until repatriated in December 1918. In 1927 he applied for his medals. His address at the time was c/o Shanghai Sharebrokers Association, 17 Jinkee Road, Shanghai.

With copied m.i.c., service, p.o.w. and other papers and war diary extracts.