Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal B. Pearce, Cheshire Yeomanry and Shropshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action at Villers Faucon on 7 September 1918

British War and Victory Medals (876 Cpl., Ches. Yeo.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (876 Pte., Ches. Yeo.), with related Memorial Plaque (Bert Pearce), nearly extremely fine (4) £500-600

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties formed by Tim Parsons.

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Bert Pearce, who was born at Ascot, Berkshire, originally enlisted in the Cheshire Yeomanry at Chester, and served with ‘B’ Squadron, No. 1 Troop out in Palestine after 1915.

Returning to the European theatre of war, Pearce became a member of the 10th Battalion, Shropshire Light Infantry, which unit comprised drafts taken from the Cheshire and Shropshire Yeomanry. And on 7 September, in the attack on Villers Faucon, when his unit came under heavy machine-gun fire, he was killed.

Pearce is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial; photographs of the relevant panel are included.