Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Sergeant J. D. Beer, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, later Royal Army Medical Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (22562553 Cpl. J. D. Beer. R.A.M.C.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Near East (22562553 Sgt. J. D. Beer. R.A.M.C.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Territorial (5672365 Pte. J. D. Beer. D.C.L.I.) contact marks, good very fine (8) £400-£500

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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Jack Douglas Beer was born in Wilton, Somerset, on 24 January 1921 and attested for the Somerset Light Infantry (Territorial Force) at Minehead on 17 November 1938. He transferred to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 16 May 1944, and then to the Reserve on 13 July 1946, and was discharged on 15 July 1951.

Beer re-enlisted into the Royal Army Medical Corps on 16 July 1951, and served with them in Kenya and East Africa from 25 January 1953 to 19 December 1955, and then in Aden from 16 August 1959 to 12 September 1960. He was discharged on 9 December 1960, after total service of 21 years and 99 days.

Sold with copied service records and other research.