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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 981

Six: Private J. R. Graham, Monmouthshire Regiment, late Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment, who was wounded during the North West Europe campaign

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5948895 Pte. J. R. Graham. Bedfs. & Herts. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army; France & Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style as worn, first with retaining bar above clasp and polished, the remainder very fine (6)

J. R. Graham served in Palestine with the 1st Battalion, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment before transferring to the 2nd Battalion, Monmouthshire Regiment. They landed in Normandy D+22 and first saw action in the Battle for Caen besides spending two weeks in trenches between Hill 112 and the Odon. Having taken heavy casualties in the Falaise Gap, they sharing in the actions of Den Bosch and in the Reichswald. Making Germany in early February, the unit had suffered some 300 casualties and were given a months rest in order to prepare for what would be their final action of the war, the crossing of the Aller at Rethem. It was in this final action that Graham was wounded on 11 April 1945; sold with copied roll and Casualty List extracts.

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£180

Starting price
£80