Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore

Three: Lieutenant P. G. Edwards, Devonshire Regiment and Royal Army Service Corps

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Lt. P. G. Edwards. Devon.) mounted as worn, the Defence and War Medals on the incorrect ribands, good very fine and better (3) £80-£100

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

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Peter Glanville Edwards was born in Irby, Cheshire, in 1925. A Civil Engineer by occupation, he enlisted as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers on 19 October 1944, and served in India with the Royal Engineers until being granted an Emergency Commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment on 10 February 1946. Joining the 1st Battalion at Kluang, Malaya, on 29 March 1946 he served in Malaya and Hong Kong with the Devonshire Regiment until 25 September 1948. Returning home in October 1948, he was temporarily attached to the Royal Army Service Corps before being granted a Regular Commission in the Royal Army Service Corps on 23 July 1949; his subsequent career spent in Egypt, Home, and with the B.A.O.R. was chequered; twice subject to General Court Martial and twice found guilty he was called upon to retire May 1957. He died at Basingstoke on 27 September 1977, aged 52.

Sold with copied service records; and other research.