Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Pair: Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant L. P. Quaintance, Devonshire Regiment, later Captain (Quartermaster), Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 2nd issue with fixed suspension (5609528 W.O. Cl. II. L. P. Quaintance. Devon R.); together with the related miniature awards, these mounted as worn, edge bruise, good very fine (2) £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Louis Percy Quaintance was born in Woodbury, Devon, in 1900. A Farm Labourer by occupation, he enlisted for the period of the War at Exeter on 7 March 1918 and served at home until attesting for the Devonshire Regiment on 21 March 1919. Posted to the 2nd Battalion, he embarked for India in August 1919, where he served until March 1926 when the Battalion returned home via Aden. Posted to the 1st Battalion for service on the North West Frontier of India on 10 April 1934, he was awarded the Silver Jubilee Medal in 1935 and his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1936. Embarking for the U.K. on 22 August 1939, Quaintance was posted to the Infantry Training Centre, before being appointed Lieutenant (Quartermaster) in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 28 May 1940. Embarked for North Africa on 13 August 1943, he was reported ‘Dangerously ill’ in the Middle East on 11 July 1945, disembarking in the U.K. on 19 December 1945. He died at Dawlish, Devon on 2 February 1947, aged 46, and is buried under a Commonwealth War Graves Commission headstone at Dawlish.

Sold with a photographic image of the recipient; copied service records; and other research.