Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Lt. P. H. Cantan. D.C.L.I.) edge bruise, very fine, rare to unit £240-£280

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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Dix Noonan Webb, September 2005.

Peter Henry Cantan was born on 18 December 1927 and joined the Army in late 1945. After serving 1 year and 206 days in the ranks he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 26 July 1947, and was promoted Lieutenant on 18 December 1948. He is listed in various editions of the Regimental Journal The One and All, as serving successively as Platoon Commander of the Motor Machine Gun Platoon; at the Depot of the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry; and as Aide de Camp to the General Officer Commanding, 43rd (Wessex) Infantry Division, and it was presumably on some sort of secondment that he served in Malaya, as the Regiment was not present there during the Emergency. He was promoted Captain on 5 May 1955 and retired on 1 March 1958.

Sold with copied research.