Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Company Sergeant-Major A. E. Aldridge, Welsh Regiment

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (3949527 Pte. A. E. Aldridge, Welch R.); Coronation 1937; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (W.O. Cl. II A. E. Aldridge, Welch R.), generally good very fine (3) £160-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to Welsh Regiments formed by the Late Llewellyn Lord.

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Aldridge was promoted to Corporal in April 1925 and to Sergeant in January 1930. He served for several years in the 1st Battalion’s signalling section and otherwise gained a reputation for being a good shot and footballer. Having then been advanced to Colour-Sergeant in July 1934, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion, in which he gained advancement to Company Sergeant-Major in the following year and represented the regiment at the Coronation in 1937. He appears to have been serving at the Regimental Depot in the summer of 1939; sold with copied research.