Orders, Decorations and Medals

Six: Staff Sergeant Walter Cowell, Royal Army Medical Corps
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (72629, Pte.); 1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE and WAR MEDALS, together with small photograph, condolence slip and two cuttings, good very fine
Staff Sergeant Walter Cowell was killed in Italy in 1944. He had been abroad for four years. He died with tragic suddenness, though in great heroism. He had gone in front of our lines to rescue a wounded comrade, when a land-mine exploded, and Walter was killed. (See cutting with medals).

Three: Private R. Slater, King's Own Regiment, late the Border Regiment
GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3598769 Pte., Bord.R.); KOREA 1950-53 (22525197 Pte., King's Own); U.N. KOREA, very fine (9)