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Auction: 14001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 248

Seven: Captain B.M. Roberts, Royal Engineers, Severely Wounded When His Dingo Scout Car Ran into a Minefield in Italy, June 1944
1939-1945 Star; Africa Star, with 1st Army Bar; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal; G.VI.R., with 'Territorial' scroll suspension (Lt. B.M. Roberts, R.E.); Jubilee 1977, very fine or better, mounted as originally worn in this order, together with a G.VI.R. ‘For Loyal Service’ badge (7)

Captain Brian Meiric Roberts, born Cardiff, 1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Engineers at the start of the Second World War and served in the Middle East, March 1943; present at the final battles of the Tunisian Campaign, and promoted Captain; appointed the C.R.E’s Reconnaissance Officer, following which he moved to the Italian front, and present in the final battle for Cassino and part of the R.E. team that constructed the famous “Amazon” bridge over the Rapido river; severely wounded, June 1944, as the campaign moved through central Italy, when his Dingo scout car ran into a minefield; repatriated to the U.K. and ended the War as a Mine Warfare Instructor at the R.E. O.C.T.U., Newark. After the War served as Chief Engineer, Crawley Development Corporation, and awarded the 1977 Silver Jubilee Medal for services as Chief Engineer of the New Towns Commission. He died in 2000.

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