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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 349

(x) Four: Company Sergeant-Major P. F. Courtney, Rifle Brigade, who was taken P.O.W. at the defence of Calais in May 1940 and afterwards became a Yeoman of the Guard

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Coronation 1953; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6909168 W.O. Cl. II P. F. Courtney, Rif. Brig.), mounted court-style as worn, good very fine and toned (4)

Percival Frederick Courtney was born at Aldershot, Hampshire on 18 September 1903, the son of Sergeant-Major Instructor John Percival of the 13th Hussars. He enlisted in the Rifle Brigade in May 1920 and served in the 1st Battalion in India 1921-33, where he gained advancement to Corporal in April 1927 and to Sergeant in December 1929. Having then briefly served in the Sudan, he returned to the U.K. and joined the Permanent Staff of the London Rifle Brigade.

Re-mustered in the 1st Battalion as a Company Sergeant-Major in May 1939, Courtney saw action with the B.E.F. in France and was taken P.O.W. at the gallant defence of Calais in May 1940. The award of his L.S. & G.C. had been announced in AO 62 of the previous month and it was issued to him on his return from captivity at Stalag 383 in September 1945.

Placed on the Royal Army Reserve, Courtney was appointed a Yeoman of the Guard in January 1948, in which capacity he was awarded his Coronation Medal in 1953. He died at Rochford, Essex in January 1967; sold with further details.


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