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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 291

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2657691 Gdsmn. A. Ellis. C. Gds.), good very fine

Albert Ellis was born in 1919 and had seen active service in Palestine and was serving with the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards during the Second World War. In the summer of 1942 the Battalion found themselves in the 'Knightsbridge Box' feature west of Tobruk - it was here that Ellis was killed in action on 5 June, being commemorated upon the Alamein Memorial.

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£250

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£60