Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5434601. Pte. H. J. Wheeler. D.C.L.I.) nearly extremely fine, scarce to unit £160-£200

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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Harold James Wheeler was born in Bridgewater, Somerset, on 15 April 1911 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Taunton on 2 May 1928. Transferring to the Reserve, he was recalled as a Section “A” Reservist in September 1936, and served as part of a draft from the Regiment attached to the 2nd Battalion, King’s Royal Rifle Corps in Palestine from 10 September to 16 November 1936. He transferred to the 4th Battalion, Reconnaissance Corps, on 22 January 1941, and died in Taunton on 16 October 1988.

Sold with copied medal roll extract and copied research.