LONG SERVICE MEDALS
951
Pair: Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant C. W. Peacock, Royal Garrison Artillery
ARMY L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (70212 C.Q.M. Sjt., R.G.A.); ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (70212 R.Q.M.
Sjt., R.G.A.) first with edge bruise, otherwise nearly extremely fine (2) £250-300
Charles Willie Peacock was born in 1868 in the Parish of St. John’s,
Huddersfield, Yorkshire. A Draper by occupation, he attested for the Royal
Artillery at Sunderland on 3 January 1889, aged 21 years, 7 months. With the
Royal Artillery he served in Mauritius, April 1897-December 1900; Ceylon,
December 1900-February 1903; India, December 1904-January 1907; Aden,
January 1907-November 1908; and India, November 1908-April 1912. Peacock
was promoted to Company Quartermaster Serjeant in March 1900 and in
December 1902 he posted to the 13th Company, Royal Garrison Artillery. He
was awarded the Army Long Service Medal in 1907, by Army Order 67. In July
1912 he was promoted to Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant and in September
was posted to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, where he remained until
the end of his service. For his service during the Great War he was awarded the
Army Meritorious Service Medal (London Gazette 16 October 1919). The
recommendation for his M.S.M. reads:
‘For specific reward for exceptional services rendered in connection with training
at home. This Warrant Officer has held his present appointment throughout the
war and has worked indefatigably under the trying conditions of constant
changes of subordinates. The large number of Cadets who have been trained at
the Academy since the outbreak of war has been a great strain on the Q.M. Sgt.
and the cheerful and capable manner in which he carried out his important
duties has greatly conduced to the welfare of the Cadets. He has been previously
recommended for reward.’
He was also mentioned for valuable services rendered in connection with the
war, dated War Office, 25 March 1919. R.Q.M.S. Peacock was discharged on 30
April 1920. With copied service papers and with original photograph of the
recipient in uniform, with his wife, Alice, who he married in 1891, and their
three daughters.
952
ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (S. Mjr. J. O’Brien, Oxf.
& Bucks. L.I.) minor official correction to surname, good very fine
£180-220
Joseph O’Brien enlisted in the 43rd Light Infantry as a boy recruit in Dublin in
September 1869, aged 14 years. In his subsequent career of 30 years with the
Colours, he served overseas for 14 years, but witnessed no action, and was
finally discharged as a Sergeant-Major in Oxford in September 1899, aged 44
years - the relevant papers noting his entitlement to the L.S. & G.C. Medal. It was
in the same year that he was recommended for the M.S.M., which distinction was
eventually granted in A0 269 of 1927.
Sold with a quantity of original documentation, including the recipient’s
discharge and character certificates; three letters of thanks from Lieutenant-
Colonel W. Clark, 1st Battalion, Oxfordshire Light Infantry (Quetta, December
1885 and two from Parkhurst, 1888); a wedding portrait photograph and assorted
legal documents regarding property, insurance, etc.
953
ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 1st issue (19283 Sjt. E. Meagher, R.A.M.C.) slight scratch to obverse, otherwise
good very fine £80-100
M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable service rendered with the Armies in France and Flanders’.
954
ARMY MERITORIOUS SERVICE MEDAL, G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (C. Sjt. H. Harding, K.O.S.B.) suspension a little
slack, contact marks, fine £70-90
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