Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Plaque (Pomeroy John Peter) in card envelope with Buckingham Palace enclosure, extremely fine £140-£180

Pomeroy John Peter was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the West Kent Yeomanry from the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps on 31 October 1917, and served with the 10th (Royal East Kent and West Kent Yeomanry) Battalion, East Kent Regiment during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action on 19 September 1918, and is buried in Villers-Faucon Communal Cemetery Extension, Somme, France.

In civilian life Peter was employed by the Booth Steamship Line, of Liverpool, as Secretary of their London Office.

Sold with a privately produced copy of ‘Booth Line. War Service 1914-1918’, being a record of the Booth Line employees who served during the Great War, including a portrait photograph of the recipient; and a related (?) Liverpool Civic Service League Medal, bronze, with ‘1911’ suspension bar, the reverse of the bar numbered ‘37’.