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Auction: 17002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 333

Three: Trooper W. T. Tunnah, 1st Lothian and Border Yeomanry (R.A.C.), who was taken P.O.W. at St. Valery in June 1940

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, E.II.R. (7886671 Tpr. W. Tunnah, R. Tks.), good very fine (3)

William Todd Tunnah was born in Edinburgh in August 1916. A Trooper in the 1st Lothian and Border Yeomanry (R.A.C.), a component of the British Expeditionary Force's 51st Highland Division, he first went into action at the end of April 1940. The regiment, equipped with tanks and carriers, thereafter remained at the core of the 51st Division's operations, often being the last unit to hold the line as the Division retreated to St. Valery. It was here, on 12 June 1940, that Tunnah and his comrades fought their last action in France, just three officers and 17 other ranks managing to escape.

Originally incarcerated in Stalag 8B in the summer of 1940, he was subsequently held at working camps in Beuthen, Germany and Milowitz, Poland, prior to being transferred to Stalag 344 at Lamsdorf in January 1945. Tunnah died in Leeds in November 1990; sold with copied research.

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