Three: Sergeant E. Wall, Royal Air Force, late Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and Royal Flying Corps

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Tirah 1897-98, Punjab Frontier 1897-98 (3702 Pte., 1st D.of C.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (45341 Sgt., R.A.F.), the first with later officially impressed naming, and slack suspension claw, nearly very fine and better (3) £100-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to the R.F.C. and R.A.F. formed by Wing Commander Bill Traynor.

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Edwin Wall was born at Oldbury, Worcestershire and enlisted in the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at Bodmin in February 1892, aged 19 years. Embarked for India in February 1894, he is verified as having served with the 1st Battalion in the Tirah and Punjab Frontier operations of 1897-98, and was discharged in May 1910. Having then rejoined his old regiment in October 1914, he transferred to the Royal Flying Corps as a Sergeant (Disciplinarian) in July 1916 and served out in France from June 1918 to March 1919. Wall was discharged in April 1920 and died in April 1942, aged 71 years, while employed as an A.R.P. Warden in Kensington, London.