WW2 Defence & War Medals unnamed as issued & General Service Medal clasp Malaya LT P G EDWARDS DEVON. Mounted on a bar for wear.
Peter Glanville Edwards was born in Irby, Cheshire, in 1925. A Civil Engineer by occupation, he enlisted as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers on 19th Oct 1944, and served in India with the Royal Engineers until being granted an Emergency Commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Devonshire Regiment on 10th Feb 1946. Joining the 1st Battalion at Kluang, Malaya, on 29th Mar 1946 he served in Malaya and Hong Kong with the Devonshire Regiment until 25th Sep 1948. Returning home in Oct 1948, he was temporarily attached to the Royal Army Service Corps before being granted a Regular Commission in the Royal Army Service Corps on 23rd Jul 1949; his subsequent career spent in Egypt, Home, and with the BAOR was chequered; twice subject to General Court Martial and twice found guilty he was called upon to retire May 1957. He died at Basingstoke on 27 September 1977, aged 52.
Sold with copied service records; and other research.
