The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord

Three: Colour-Sergeant M. Darcy, Welsh Regiment

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (7178415 Cpl. M. Darcy, Welch R.); Coronation 1937; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., robed bust (7178415 C. Sjt. M. Darcy, Welch R.), contact marks, nearly very fine or better (3) £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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‘Mick’ Darcy (or D’Arcy), who was awarded the British War and Victory Medals for his services in the Great War, was promoted to Sergeant in the 1st Battalion in June 1929. Having then been advanced to Company Sergeant-Major in July 1935, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion and represented the regiment at the Coronation in 1937. He finally took his discharge in Northern Ireland in July 1939, when it was said he wasted no time in heading south ‘to blow the froth from his favourite nectar in Dublin’; sold with copied research and portrait photograph.