Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Corporal D. L. Cowlin, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Soldier’s Release Book; and two National Registration Identity Cards, traces of verdigris to Africa Star, otherwise good very fine

Four: Private J. E. Brailsford, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, late Royal Artillery
1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; together with the recipient’s original Soldier’s Service and Pay Book, nearly extremely fine

Five: Attributed to Private A. Courage, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; mounted on a display board together with a DCLI cap badge ands a photograph of the recipient on his wedding day, the reverse inscribed ‘Private Arthur Courage and Mrs Courage’, good very fine (14) £100-£140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units.

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Donald Lawrence Cowlin was born in Ealing, Middlesex, on 10 April 1916 and attested for the Gloucestershire Regiment on 15 March 1940. He transferred to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 30 June 1943, and served with the 30th Battalion during the Second World War in North Africa from 25 August 1943. He was promoted Corporal on 3 September 1945, and was finally released on 11 February 1946.
Sold with D.C.L.I. cap badge, shoulder title, and Corporal’s stripes; and copied research.

John Edward Brailsford was born on 8 June 1914, and attested for the Royal Artillery on 12 September 1940. He underwent a gas training course in “D.M. Gas” (an arsenic and chlorine based compound) in January 1942, before undertaking a conversion course to become a Light Infantryman in early 1945, and transferring to the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry in February 1945. He served with the D.C.L.I. in Greece in 1946 during the first part of the Greek Civil War, and was demobilised from the 2nd Battalion on 14 March 1946.
Sold with an Army pamphlet ‘France’ addressed to the ‘new B.E.F.’ (the post-D-Day force); and copied research.

Arthur Courage was born at Falmouth, Cornwall, on 3 April 1919 and attested for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 16 October 1939. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Second World War, and was discharged Class ‘W’ on 7 February 1946. He died in Truro in August 1989.
Sold with copied research but no original documentation.