Hammer

£65

WW1 Essex Regiment Gallipoli Veteran Group of Three Medals.

Awarded to “2100 SJT C.E. BRACKENBOROUGH ESSEX R”. Comprising: 1914/15 Star “PTE ESSEX R”, British War Medal, Victory Medal. Mounted for display. ... Accompanied by a quantity of research.

Sergeant Charles Edwin Brackenborough a native of Walthamstow enlisted into the 1/7th Bn Essex Regiment on the 7th November 1913. On the 11th August 1915 he landed at Gallipoli and whist fighting here was wounded and was sent back to the UK. He returned to his Regiment and survived the war and died in 1975.