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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 536

(x) Four: Lance-Corporal R. G. Kidson, Umvoti Mounted Rifles, who was posted missing in Libya on 20 June 1942 and later confirmed as a Prisoner of War

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal 1939-45 (1687 R. G. Kidson), very fine (4)


Ronald Grenville Kidson was born at Kimberley on 11 October 1915, the son of Mrs. G. J. Jacobs of Lichtenburg, South Africa. He enlisted as a Private in the Umvoti Mounted Rifles on 25 June 1940, was promoted Lance-Corporal in September 1940 and left Durban on 21 July 1941, aboard the S.S. Elizabethville, bound for the Middle East. After a three week voyage the men disembarked at Suez. At that time the U.M.R. were part of the 1st South African Brigade and Ronald was captured on 20 June 1942. Subsequently held at Stalag 4 F P.O.W. camp at Muhlbach, near Chemnitz, he was repatriated to the U.K. on 26 May 1945 and disembarked at Cape Town a month later. He was discharged on 27 October; sold with copied research.

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