Auction Catalogue

26 & 27 September 2018

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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№ 996 x

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27 September 2018

Hammer Price:
£400

Five: Private R. T. Lightfoot, King’s Shropshire Light Infantry, late King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (22222498 Pte. R. Lightfoot. K.O.Y.L.I.); Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22222498 Pte. R. T. Lightfoot. K.S.L.I.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, mounted as worn, very fine (5) £200-240

Robert Tye Lightfoot was born in Doncaster, Yorkshire, on 2 June 1926 and served with the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, and the King’s Shropshire Light Infantry. He died in October 1984.

Sold with 14 postcard size photographs which show Lightfoot at various times during his army career wearing each of the three different cap badges; and approximately 100 small snapshot-type photographs of the recipient and his comrades, places, views &c. At least one is marked on the back ‘Mog 1949’, believed to relate to a tour of Mogadishu that was undertaken by the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry at this time.