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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 285

(x) Victory Medal 1914-19 (5126 Pte. P. Foote, 7-Lond. R.), nearly very fine

Percival "Percy" Foote was born in Hackney, the son of Emily Sarah and Charles Edward Foote, in 1893. He served with the 7th (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment, from 2 June 1915 and was wounded in two places at Souchez on 21 May 1916; a gunshot wound to the left heel and a wound to the abdominal wall and stomach caused by shrapnel. He was taken Prisoner of War and repatriated to England on 23 March 1918, upon which he was sent to the King George Hospital in Stamford Street, London. Percival married Ann R. Hopkins in Bethnal Green later that year, but sadly died at a young age at Hendon in 1925; also entitled to a British War Medal 1914-20 and a Silver War Badge.

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