Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Second Lieutenant P. D. Aylward, Hampshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. P. D. Aylward.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted for wear, nearly extremely fine (4) £80-£100

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, December 2008.

Percy Danford Aylward was born in Dean, Hampshire in October 1885 and was educated at Haidley University College, Southampton. A Solicitor by occupation, he attested for the Army Reserve on 7 December 1915. Posted to the Inns of Court O.T.C. in May 1917. After service with No.16 Cadet Battalion he was discharged to a commission in the Hampshire Regiment in April 1918 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 6 September 1918. Listed as wounded in The Hampshire Regimental Journal of November 1918. Discharged in February 1919, he was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935 as Town Clerk of Wilton Borough.