Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, South Arabia, Northern Ireland, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (23738746 Cpl. W. V. F. Carter. SCLI.) mounted as worn, minor edge bruise, good very fine £120-£160

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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William Victor Francis Carter was born in Paulton, Somerset, on 10 July 1942 and attested for the Somerset and Cornwall Light Infantry on 4 April 1960. He served with the Regiment in Aden from 26 April to 30 October 1966, where he is recorded in the Regimental Journal as ‘came out unscaved [sic - presumably should read unscathed] from a gunfight in Sheik Othman’, and subsequently in Northern Ireland. Promoted Sergeant and appointed Bugle Major on 3 December 1968, he transferred to Section B Reserve on 17 February 1970, and was discharged on 3 April 1972, after 12 years’ service. He died in North Walsham, Norfolk, on 1 February 1993.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.