Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. G. Coughlan, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 22 October 1914

1914 Star, with clasp (8348 Pte. J. Coughlan. 1/D. of Corn: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (8348 Pte. J. G. Coughlan D. of Corn. L.I.) all in separate named card boxes of issue, with named Record Office enclosure and OHMS transmission envelope for the 1914 Star addressed to ‘Mrs. A. E. Coughlan, 44 Rodney Place, New Kent Road, SE17’; Memorial Plaque (Joseph George Coughlan) extremely fine (4) £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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Joseph George Coughlan was born in Kingsland, Middlesex, on 4 November 1887 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Stratford, Essex, on 26 March 1906. He served pre-War with the 2nd Battalion in Cape Town and Hong Kong, before returning to the U.K. in March 1914 to serve with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 21 August 1914. He was killed in action on the Western Front on 22 October 1914 (according to the medal roll and his medal index card, although de Ruvigny and Soldiers Died both list him as dying of wounds), one of 148 other ranks from the battalion reported as ‘missing, almost certainly either killed or wounded’ on that date; he has no known grave and is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, France.

Sold with copied research.