Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant G. A. R. Rowe, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5438400 Sjt. G. A. R. Rowe. D.C.L.I.) very fine and better

Five: Private R. Sansom, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
War Medal 1939-45; France and Germany Star; Defence Medal; 1939-45 Star; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (5437279. Pte. R. Sansom. D.C.L.I.) rank officially corrected, the group mounted in this order, very fine (10) £80-£100

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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George Archibald Russell Rowe - affectionately known as ‘Buggy’ - was born in Camelford on 23 April 1914 and worked as a stonemason in St. Breward. Appointed Sergeant in the Anti-Tank Platoon of the 5th Battalion, D.C.L.I., he served in Normandy from 17 June 1944. Discharged from the Territorial Army on completion of engagement on 10 February 1954, he returned home to Cornwall and died on 20 January 1980. According to the recipient’s obituary in The Silver Bugle: ‘Many Old Comrades attended his cremation in Truro.’

Ronald Samson was born in the registration district of Stratton, Cornwall, in 1922. A railway clerk by profession, he married Cynthia Atkins at Wandsworth Registry Office on 7 November 1964 and began to raise a family in Gillingham from January 1969.