Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. William Eric Pheysey 11 Bn. A.I.F.’, mounted for display in an un-glazed frame; together with Buckingham Palace enclosure in a separate glazed frame, good condition £50-£70

William Eric Pheysey was born in Stourport, Worcestershire, on 9 January 1896 and was educated at the King Charles I School, Kidderminster. Having subsequently emigrated to Australia, he attested for the Australian Imperial Force at Helena Vale, Western Australia on 26 September 1914. He served with the 11th (Western Australia) Battalion, Australian Imperial Force during the Great War at Gallipoli from May 1915, and was admitted to the 1st Australian Casualty Clearing Station on 1 August 1915 with gun shot wounds to the left calf and right thigh. Invalided to England, he recovered and re-joined his Battalion at Alexandria on 10 March 1916.

Pheysey proceeded to France with his battalion the following month, and was killed in action on the Western Front near Pozieres on 22 July 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

Sold with copied research including a photographic image of the recipient.