Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (7880 Pte. F. Peadon. 1/Som: L.I.) very fine £100-£140

Fred Peadon was born in Somerset in 1885 and attested for the Somerset Light Infantry at Taunton on 22 January 1906. He transferred to the Army Reserve on 5 February 1911, but was recalled to the Colours on 6 August 1914 and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 August 1914. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War by the Germans at Ligny on 26 August 1914 (for a full account of the 1st Somersets action on this date see the previous lot). Repatriated to the U.K. via Switzerland on 14 September 1917, suffering from emphysema, he was discharged as no longer physically fit for War Service on 16 November 1917, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Sold with copied attestation papers, Medal Index Card, and other research.