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Auction: 20002 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Space Exploration
Lot: 345

Seven: Corporal G. W. Whittle, Leicestershire Regiment, who died in North Africa as a result of an accident on 31 March 1943

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (4966851 Cpl. G. W. Whittle. Leic. R.); 1939-45 Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Jubilee 1935; Regular Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R. (4966851 Cpl. G. W. Whittle. Leic. R.), mounted for wear, likely entitled to Africa Star in lieu of Italy Star, good very fine (7)

George William Whittle was born around 1899 at Lenton, Nottinghamshire, the son of general labourer John Whittle and his wife Sarah Jane, of 93 Park Street, New Lenton, Nottingham. He enlisted in the Leicestershire Regiment on 25 April 1924 and was appointed Unpaid Lance Corporal on 30 January 1936. He died aged 44 years whilst serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment and is buried in the Fayid War Cemetery, Egypt, his headstone bearing the inscription: 'He lies beside his fallen comrades. Ever Remembered by Sisters and Brothers.'

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