Special Collections

Sold on 7 July 2010

1 part

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The collection of medals to the 41st and 69th Regiments of Foot (The Welch Regiment) formed by the late colonel Dudley Thornton, CBE

Colonel Dudley Edwin Thornton, CBE, ERD

Lot

№ 34

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8 July 2010

Hammer Price:
£85

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (3952594 Pte. A. E. Walker, Welch R.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £50-60

Albert Edward Walker enlisted into the Welch Regiment on 27 July 1922, and was discharged having been convicted by the Civil Power on 26 July 1929. He re-enlisted into the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps on 27 March 1940 and served throughout the Second World War, being finally discharged on 10 February 1954. Sold with details from War Office Records.