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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 531

(x) Four: Sergeant W. A. Blann, South African Corps of Signals, who served in East Africa and Madagascar during the Second World War

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Africa Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45, all officially impressed, '212937 W. A. Blann', mounted as worn, good very fine (4)


William Alan Blann was born in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa on 31 January 1913. He enlisted in 1940 and served just under three and a half years with the S.A.C.S., initially at home with No. 2. G.H.Q., and later as a Signaller with No. 2 Motorised Infantry Brigade. His service record notes a bout of illness at Nairobi in August 1940, which led to a week-long hospitalisation, yet he returned to service and was discharged on 20 November 1943. He intended to return to civilian employment as at the G.P.O. at Pretoria; sold with original medal entitlement document and envelope for transmittal of medals, together with copied service record.

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