Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir. A. A. Brooke-Pechell, Royal Army Medical Corps India General Ser...
Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir. A. A. Brooke-Pechell, Royal Army Medical Corps
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgeon A. A. Pechell Medical Staff); Coronation 1911, mounted court-style as worn, minor contact marks, overall good very fine
Augustus Alexander Brooke-Pechell, 7th Baronet Pechell was born at Shrewsbury on 31 July 1857 the son of Sir George S. Brooke-Pechell, 5th Bt. Having been educated at Edinburgh University and earned his M.B. Brooke-Pechell joined the Army. Promoted Surgeon Captain on 29 July 1882, only a few years before his Burma service and further advanced Surgeon-Major on 29 July 1894. He later married Mabel M. Briggs, the daughter of Major-General George Briggs on 24 September 1888. Brooke-Pechell was an early member of the Royal Army Medical Corps and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 29 July 1902, succeeding his brother to the Baronetcy in 1904. With the outbreak of the First World War he was re-employed as Deputy Surgeon at Royal Hospital, Chelsea from 10 December 1914. During course of the war his son, George D. Brooke-Pechell served with the Indian Army, attached to the Royal Flying Corps, he was killed while flying on 21 December 1916. His eldest son Paul Brooke-Pechell earned the Military Cross with the Essex Regiment in 1915 for holding his trench with a handful of men against an overwhelming attack despite the enemy's use of gas. Brooke-Pechell died on 6 October 1937 at Boston Spa, Yorkshire and was succeeded to the baronetcy by his eldest son; sold together with copied pages from the Peerage and Baronetage, an entry from the Army Medical Service and handwritten notes from an obituary in The Times.
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Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel Sir. A. A. Brooke-Pechell, Royal Army Medical Corps
India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (Surgeon A. A. Pechell Medical Staff); Coronation 1911, mounted court-style as worn, minor contact marks, overall good very fine
Augustus Alexander Brooke-Pechell, 7th Baronet Pechell was born at Shrewsbury on 31 July 1857 the son of Sir George S. Brooke-Pechell, 5th Bt. Having been educated at Edinburgh University and earned his M.B. Brooke-Pechell joined the Army. Promoted Surgeon Captain on 29 July 1882, only a few years before his Burma service and further advanced Surgeon-Major on 29 July 1894. He later married Mabel M. Briggs, the daughter of Major-General George Briggs on 24 September 1888. Brooke-Pechell was an early member of the Royal Army Medical Corps and was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 29 July 1902, succeeding his brother to the Baronetcy in 1904. With the outbreak of the First World War he was re-employed as Deputy Surgeon at Royal Hospital, Chelsea from 10 December 1914. During course of the war his son, George D. Brooke-Pechell served with the Indian Army, attached to the Royal Flying Corps, he was killed while flying on 21 December 1916. His eldest son Paul Brooke-Pechell earned the Military Cross with the Essex Regiment in 1915 for holding his trench with a handful of men against an overwhelming attack despite the enemy's use of gas. Brooke-Pechell died on 6 October 1937 at Boston Spa, Yorkshire and was succeeded to the baronetcy by his eldest son; sold together with copied pages from the Peerage and Baronetage, an entry from the Army Medical Service and handwritten notes from an obituary in The Times.
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