Five: Private A. H. Rowe, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and Machine Gun Corps, later Corps of Military Police

British War Medal 1914-20 (4245 Pte. A. H. Rowe. D.C.L.I.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (4245 Pte. A. H. Rowe. D.C.L.I.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, the Great War pair heavily polished and worn, therefore fair; the rest better (5) £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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Albert Henry Rowe was born in Bude, Cornwall, on 27 June 1895 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 2 March 1914, serving with the 5th Battalion during the Great War in India (not entitled to a Victory Medal). Discharged on 20 June 1919, he attested for the Machine Gun Corps the following day, and later the Devonshire Regiment (Territorial Army), before reverting to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (Regular Army) on 9 September 1924, and appears on the Roll for the 1937 Jubilee Medal as ‘7815537, Private, 2nd Battalion, D.C.L.I.’ He saw further service at home during the Second World War, transferring to the Corps of Military Police on 24 August 1942, and after transferring to the Reserve on 5 November 1945, was finally discharged on 7 April 1951, after over 37 years’ service, a decade of which was spent soldiering in India.
Sold with copied service papers and other research.