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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 958

Five: Sergeant H. F. Green, Coldstream Guards, who died at home in November 1945 having spent some three years behind the wire, having gone 'in the bag' at Tobruk

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (2656703. Cpl. H. F. Green. C. Gds.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, minor official correction to number on first, otherwise good very fine (5)

Harold Fiddian Green, a native of Welford-upon-Avon, was born on 19 May 1914 and enlisted in the Coldstream Guards on 25 September 1934. Having served two tours in Palestine, he served with the 3rd Battalion in the Middle East and Africa from the start of the Second World War. Posted as a prisoner of war having been missing at Tobruk on 20 June 1942. Initially held at Camp 60 (Italy), he was transferred to Stalag XVII in early 1944, finally landing back in England on 26 April 1945. Admitted to Military Hospital on 27 October, he died of tuberculous meningitis on 3 November and is buried in the Stratford-upon-Avon Cemetery, aged just 31; sold with copied service record and rolls.

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£180

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£100