A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units

Six: Private H. Heaford, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, later Royal Air Force
1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, North Africa 1942-43; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Harold William Hoiles Heaford) in Royal Mint case of issue; together with the recipient’s original Regular Army Certificate of Service; and Imperial Service Medal bestowal Certificate, this last framed and glazed, nearly extremely fine

Three: Private W. P. Deakin, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
Defence and War Medals; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (5433442 Pte. W. P. Deakin. D.C.L.I.) mounted as worn, good very fine (8) £140-£180

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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Harold Heaford was born in 1902 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Whitehall on 28 June 1922, having previously served as a Corporal in the Royal Army Pay Corps. He transferred to the Reserve on 27 June 1929, and was discharged on 27 June 1934, after 12 years’ service. During the Second World War he served as a Leading Aircraftman in the Royal Air Force; and in civilian life was employed as a Stores Supervisor at the Ministry of Defence, being awarded his Imperial Service Medal upon his retirement (London Gazette 28 September 1965).
Sold with the recipient’s Army Vocational Training Certificate; Medal notification slip for the Second War awards; three R.A.O.B. Certificates and membership card; and copied research.

William Percy Deakin was born on 8 February 1903 and ‘joined the Regiment in September 1924, and served until August 1952. He will be remembered by every officer who served during those years as a very outstanding Officers’ Mess waiter and best possible type of soldier of the pre-1939 War period. Coming originally from Birmingham, he was in the Mess at the Depot for many years, and saw active service with the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1939-40. He died in Truro on 26 December 1978.’ (the recipient’s obituary in The Silver Bugle, Spring 1979 refers).
Sold with copied service papers, which confirm that he served overseas with the British Expeditionary Force in France from 30 September 1939 to 29 February 1940; and copied research.