Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Second Lieutenant P. D. Aylward, Hampshire Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.); Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937, mounted as worn, nearly extremely fine (4) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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Percy Danford Aylward was born in Dean, Hampshire on 11 October 1885 and was educated at Haidley University College, Southampton. A Solicitor by occupation, he attested for the Army Reserve on 7 December 1915. Posted to the Inns of Court O.T.C. in May 1917. After service with No.16 Cadet Battalion he was discharged to a commission in the Hampshire Regiment in April 1918 and entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 6 September 1918. Listed as wounded in The Hampshire Regimental Journal of November 1918. Discharged in February 1919, he was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935 as Town Clerk of Wilton Borough. Sold with copied research.