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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 832

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Three: Sergeant W. G. Madden, London Regiment, late Essex Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (1693 Sjt. W. G. Madden, 6-Lond. R.); Territorial Force War Medal 1914-18 (1693 Pte. W. G. Madden, 6-Lond. R.), together with the recipient's miniature dress medals, very fine

Six: Corporal G. E. R. Madden, Royal West Kent Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial (6346151 Pte. G. E. R. Madden, R.W.K.), good very fine (9)

William George Madden was born in 1897 at Beckenham, Kent, the son of Alice Mary and William George Madden. He served with the 1/6th (City of London) Battalion and returned from the war to marry Doris Blanche Harber at Bromley in the summer of 1921; he died at Horsham, Sussex, in 1965.

George Edwin Roy Madden was born on 14 June 1922, the eldest son of four children. He was called up for military service on 28 August 1939 and served with the 78th (Battleaxe) Division, 36th Infantry Brigade. This Division was formed specifically for Operation "Torch" from regular British Army units. It landed at Algiers in 1942 and gained a formidable reputation in the Tunisian campaign and thence in the invasion of Sicily and Battle of Monte Cassino. After the war, George returned to the 50th Primary Training Care and Depot at Maidstone, until discharged on 21 April 1947; he married twice and died aged 78 at Thanet.


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