Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. group of three awarded to Acting Corporal F. Peel, 2nd Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who ‘rushed a pill-box’ and captured an enemy gun team

Military Medal, G.V.R. (21951 L.Cpl.-A.Cpl.- F. Peel. 2/K.O.S.B.); British War and Victory Medals (21951 A.Cpl. F. Peel. K.O. Sco.Bord.) good very fine (3)

M.M. London Gazette 28 January 1918.

Foster Peel was born in the Borough of Leeds on 6 September 1893. A resident of the market town of Morley, his Military Medal was presented to him by the local Mayor on 6 September 1918. The Morley Observer adds: ‘Fountain Street, Morley, son of Mr. Solomon Peel, the Corporation’s oldest employee. He volunteered early in the war, but was refused, and after submitting to an operation at Leeds General Infirmary was accepted on the 23rd October 1915. He has served in France and Italy for 28 months, he has been wounded twice - in the Battle of the Somme and at Passchendaele. He was awarded the Military Medal on the 4th October 1917, for rushing a pill-box and capturing a machine-gun and gun team. He is now serving in Ireland.’

The recipient’s medical records further note that he was laid low on 28 April 1916 whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, as a result of German measles.