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

Pair: Acting Sergeant S. Aukett, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, later Royal Army Medical Corps, who was Mentioned in Despatches for Salonika
1914-15 Star (13400 Pte. S. Aukett. D. of Corn. L.I.); British War Medal 1914-20 (13400 A.Sjt. S. Aukett. D.C.L.I.); together with an erased Victory Medal, with M.I.D. oak leaves, good very fine

Pair: Private T. Cole, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, who was conscripted into the Light Infantry despite only having one eye
British War and Victory Medals (26698 Pte. T. Cole. D. of Corn. L.I.) good very fine

Pair: Private W. R. Edmonds, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
British War and Victory Medals (38058 Pte. W. R. Edmonds. D. of Corn. L.I.) good very fine (7) £90-£120

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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Stanley Aukett was born in Leytonstone, Essex, in 1890 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Stratford, Essex, on 3 September 1914. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 26 January 1915, before transferring to the Army Service Corps on 22 July 1918, and was Mentioned in Despatches for Salonika (London Gazette 30 January 1919). He was discharged, Class ‘Z’, on 30 May 1919, and died in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, on 2 July 1959.

Thomas Cole was conscripted into the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry on 11 March 1916, despite only having one eye! He transferred to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 27 March 1916 served with the 12th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 7 May 1916.

William Robert Edmonds attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War.

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