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17 & 18 May 2016

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№ 404

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17 May 2016

Hammer Price:
£550

Five: Major M. R. Peacock, Suffolk Regiment

British War and Victory Medals ((Major); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (Major, Suff. R.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., silver, hallmarks for London 1922, complete with brooch bar, in Royal Mint case of issue, nearly extremely fine (5) £400-500

Mansel Reginald Peacock was born in Chippenham, Wiltshire, on 17 February 1888. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and gained a B.A. (3rd Cl. Th. Trip.) 1909, M.A., 1913; and trained for the Church at Sarum Theology College. 1909. Ordained a Deacon and Priest at Rochester, 1913. Curate of St. Mary, Shortland, Kent, 1913-14. Served in the Army as an officer, initially with the 1/20th Battalion London Regiment and then in the Suffolk Regiment, 1914-19. Appointed Adjutant of the 6th (Cyclist) Battalion Suffolk Regiment in November 1914 (London Gazette 16 December 1914). He entered France as a Major in October 1916. After the war he served as an Assistant Master and Chaplain at Kelly College, Tavistock, 1919-27. As Major in the Kelly College O.T.C., he was awarded the T.D. in 1925 (London Gazette 30 January 1925). He was appointed Vicar of Monks Kirby with Withybrook and Copston in the Diocese of Coventry from 1927 and rector of Dickleburgh from 1940. During the Second World War he was ranked as a Captain. Latterly employed as a Clerk in Holy Orders and living in Diss, Norfolk, he died on 23 August 1983.

The Defence Medal in card forwarding box addressed to ‘Captain M. R. Peacock, The Vicarage, Monks Kirby, Rugby’. With copied research.