Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Private F. Cunningham, Hampshire Regiment

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (5495260 Pte., Hamps. R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5495260 Pte., Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 1st Army; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Imperial Service Medal, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Edward James Cunningham) some contact marks, very fine and better (lot) £180-220

Edward James Cunningham was born in Gosport on 15 January 1912. Employed as a Skilled labourer at a H.M. Dockyard, he enlisted into the Hampshire Regiment at Winchester on 28 April 1930. With the regiment he served in India, January 1932-November 1937. He was transferred to the Army Reserve on 25 May 1938. Recalled in September 1939, he served initially with the Hampshire Regiment and then with the Royal Corps of Signals, serving in North Africa, February-July 1943. As a Signalman in the Royal Corps of Signals he was discharged on 4 November 1943 ‘ceasing to fulfil army physical requirements’.

With original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Regular Army Certificate of Service booklets (2); attestation form 1930; H.M.T. Somersetshire souvenir log card; postcard photograph of H.M.T. Somersetshire; one original and one copied photograph of the recipient in uniform; two identity disks; and a Royal Hampshire Regiment Presentation of Colours Commemorative Medal 1986.