Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Private G. Brooks, Royal Lancaster Regiment, who was killed in action at Givenchy on 9 April 1918, on which date Second Lieutenant J. H. Collin, of the same battalion, was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross
British War and Victory Medals (37086 Pte. G. Brooks. R. Lanc. R.); Memorial Plaque (George Brooks); Memorial Scroll ‘Pte. George Brooks Royal Lancaster Regt.’, the scroll sometime framed and yellowed and brittle with some loss to edges, the medals and plaque nearly extremely fine

Pair: Driver J. Brooks, Royal Artillery
British War and Victory Medals (197331 Dvr. J. Brooks. R.A.) extremely fine (6) £180-£220

George Brooks attested for the King’s Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment) and served with the 1st/4th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front. He was killed in action during heavy fighting near Givenchy on 9 April 1918, aged 19; Second Lieutenant Joseph Henry Collin, of the same Battalion, was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross for the same action. Brooks has no known grave and is commemorated on the Loos Memorial, France.

Sold together with a torn portrait post card size photograph purporting to be the recipient.

James Brooks, the brother of the above, was born in 1893, and initially enlisted into the Army Veterinary Corps in 1916. He subsequently transferred to the Royal Field Artillery for active service overseas in Salonika, and was discharged in October 1919, suffering from the effects of malaria contracted on active service.