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Auction: 16002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 35

Four: Private F.J. Peters, Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, Taken Prisoner of War at Singapore, 15.2.1942
1939-1945 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals, extremely fine, with Colonial Secretary's enclosure; Colonial Officer letter to the recipient regarding his medal entitlement, dated 26.11.1948; and the recipient's Soldier's Service and Pay Book (4)

13575 Private Francis Joseph Peters, born Dublin, 26.6.1912; employed by the Colonial Office as an Immigration Officer; enlisted in the Straits Settlements Volunteer Force, 11.7.1940; mobilised for service during the Battle of Singapore, 9.2.1942; taken Prisoner of War at Singapore, following the surrender of the Allied Forces, 15.2.1942; and held for the rest of the War in Changi Gaol, Singapore.

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