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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 861

A rare Palestine and Second World War group of five awarded to Schoolmaster V. W. Phillips, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1936-1939 (Schlmr. V. W. Phillips, R.N.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn, generally good very fine (5)

V. W. Phillips was appointed a Naval Schoolmaster in August 1925. His subsequent wartime appointments included the shore establishments Drake (1941), Medway (1942), and Assegai (1944), and he was awarded his Africa Star in respect of his appointment at H.M.S. Saunders, the secret landing craft establishment located south of Cairo in 1941-42.


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£180