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Auction: 17001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 221

Eight: Gunner M. W. Wylie, Royal Artillery, late Royal Army Medical Corps, who was wounded at Monte Cassino in March 1944

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53 (22258435 Pte. M. W. Wylie, R.A.M.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2755267 Gnr. M. W. Wylie, R.A.), this stamped '(Replacement)', the last five cleaned and dipped, contact marks, generally very fine (8)

A pre-war territorial soldier in the Black Watch, Wylie transferred to the Royal Artillery sometime after the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939. Embarked for the Middle East as a Gunner in 149 (Cheshire) Anti-Tank Regiment, R.A., he fought with the 8th Army in North Africa, from El Alamein to Tunis.

His unit was subsequently deployed to Italy, where he was wounded in the third battle of Cassino on 20 March 1944, by popular account a period of 'absolute hell': as a result of the determined defence of the famous monastery by elements of the German 1st Airborne, our casualties were heavy in the extreme.

Wylie was placed on the Army Reserve at the war's end and was called up at the time of the Korean conflict, when he served as a Private in the Royal Army Medical Corps.


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