A Collection of Medals to the 46th Foot and its Successor Units

Six: Captain S. L. Peter, Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry, later Town Clerk, Mayor, and Freeman of Launceston

British War and Victory Medals (Capt. S. L. Peter.); Defence Medal; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1937, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued, mounted court-style by Spink, London; together with the related miniature awards, these mounted ordinary-style as worn, cleaned and lacquered, nearly extremely fine (6) £220-£260

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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Stuart Luttrell Peter was born in 1894 into a distinguished Launceston family - a distant ancestor, John Peter, having been Mayor of Launceston in 1553 - and was educated at Blundell’s School, Tiverton. Following the outbreak of the Great War he volunteered for the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry on 7 August 1914, and proceeded with the 4th Battalion to India later that year (although not to a theatre of War). Advanced Captain, he served with the 1st/4th Battalion in Egypt and Palestine, and was disembodied on 28 January 1919.

In civilian life Peter served as Town Clerk of Launceston, and in 1937 organised the Feudal Dues Ceremony for the Royal Visit of H.M. King George VI to Launceston Castle. He served as Civil Defence Controller and Air Raid Precautions Sub-Controller for the Borough during the Second World War, and in 1953 was appointed Mayor of Launceston for Coronation Year. Admitted a Freeman of the Borough in 1955, he died in October 1972.

Sold with extensive research, including a photographic image of the recipient in his robes of office.