A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units

Three: Private K. H. S. Heading, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5933168 Pte. K. Heading. D.C.L.I.) in named card box of issue, extremely fine (3) £70-£90

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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Kenneth Herbert Saville Heading, a native of Chatteris, Cambridgeshire, served with a large number of different units over a comparatively short space of time, first attesting for the Suffolk Regiment on 22 February 1939, before transferring to the Cambridgeshire Regiment in March of that year; and then to the Royal Engineers in December of that year. He served during the Second World War at home in various searchlight and Anti-Aircraft units, before transferring to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 12 October 1944. He was seconded to the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 3 January 1945, and then to the Worcestershire Regiment on 6 June 1945, and served post-War with the 1st Battalion in North-West Europe from 28 December 1945 to 9 May 1946. Returning to his parent unit he was awarded his Efficiency Medal per Army Order 85 of July 1947, and was discharged on 10 February 1954.

Sold with copied service papers and other research.