Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private H. A. Brooke, East Lancashire Regiment, who was killed in action on the Western Front on the first day of the German Spring Offensive, 21 March 1918

British War and Victory Medals (235561 Pte. H. A. Brooke. E. Lan. R.) in named card box of issue; Memorial Plaque (Harold Andrew Brooke) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. Harold Andrew Brooke, E. Lancashire Regt.’, in OHMS transmission tube, addressed to ‘Mrs. Brooke, 5 Sea View, Easington Village, Co, Durham’; together with the recipient’s card identity disc, ‘Brooke HA 235531 CE East Lancs’; and an Easington Colliery Tribute Medal, gold (9ct, 7.70g), the obverse engraved ‘HB’, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by the Inhabitants of Easington Colliery for Services Rendered during the Great War 1914-1919’, extremely fine (5) £300-£400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Harold Andrew Brooke was born in Hanley Staffordshire, and resided at Easington Village, co. Durham. He attested for the Yorkshire Regiment, before transferring to the East Lancashire Regiment, and served with the 2nd/5th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action at Hargicourt on 21 March 1918, the first day of the German Spring Offensive. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Pozières Memorial, France.

Sold with named Record Office enclosure; official notification of death; and two Red Cross letters regarding the recipient’s burial, that state that he was originally buried near Hargicourt.