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Auction: 18001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 414

(x) The mounted group of nine miniature dress medals worn by Lieutenant S. Dunin-Borkowski, Polish Resistance, late 3rd Polish Lancers

Poland, Republic (8), Cross of Valour, Type I, with second award Bar; Cross of Merit, First Class, with Second Award Bar; Cross of Merit, Second Class; Home Army Cross; Army Medal, Type III, with Second and Third Award Bars; Cross of Valour and Merit; War Medal 1918-21; Ten Year Merit Medal; Yugoslavia, Kingdom, 1941-45 Cross, mounted as worn by J. R. Gaunt, Montreal, good very fine (9)


PROVENANCE:
Morton & Eden, November 2012, Lot 557.

Stefan Dunin-Borkowski served with the 3rd Polish Lancers during the Great War and afterwards in the Silesian Uprising in 1921. During the Second World War he saw service with the Polish Maquis and assisted the Yugoslavian Partisans in their efforts, his award of the Commemorative Cross being a testament to this; sold with copied research, including a photograph of the recipient wearing his awards.


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Sold for
£130