Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Sergeant R. S. Hambly, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, later South Staffordshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (4378 Pte. R. S. Hambly. D. of Corn. L.I.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (4378 Pte. R. S. Hambly. D.C.L.I.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (201282 Pte. R. S. Hambly. 4/D. of Corn: L.I.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2307060 Sjt. R. S. Hambly. S. Staff. R.) generally good very fine and better (7) £460-£550

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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Richard Sydney Hambly was bon in St. Austell, Cornwall, on 29 September 1890 and attested there for the 5th Battalion, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 26 May 1909, having previously served in the Regiment’s 2nd Volunteer Battalion. He was embodied on 4 August 1914 and transferred to the 4th Battalion on 11 December 1914. He served overseas during the Great War, first in India from 9 October 1914 to 12 February 1917 (although not in a qualifying theatre of War), and then in Egypt from 13 February 1917 until the cessation of hostilities. He was demobilised on 2 April 1919, and was awarded his Territorial Force Efficiency Medal per Army Order 275 of August 1919.

Hambly re-enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry (Territorial Army) at St. Austell on 6 March 1933, and was embodied on 2 September 1939. He was promoted Sergeant on 22 April 1940, before transferring to the South Staffordshire Regiment on 17 June 1940. He transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 23 August 1945 and was finally discharged on 10 February 1954. He was awarded his Efficiency Medal per Army Order 28 of 1944, and died in Surrey on December 1965.

Sold with copied service records and other research.