Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private C. Tancock, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry

British War and Victory Medals (4555 Pte. C. Tancock. D. of Corn. L.I.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-19 (4555 Pte. C. Tancock. D.C.L.I.) mounted as worn, very fine (3) £200-£240

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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Cyril Tancock was born in the village of Golant, located three miles upriver from Fowey, Cornwall, on 24 May 1892. The youngest of three boys, Tancock relocated with his widowed mother to Lostwithiel in 1901 and later took employment as a cowman on a farm at Duloe. He served during the Great War with the 1/4th Battalion of the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and was disembodied on 23 July 1919. Returned home to South West England, he married Winifred May Beacon on 22 November 1919 and died at Lostwithiel on 28 February 1954.