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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 638

(x) Six: Private B. Russell, Royal Army Medical Corps, who served in Norway in 1940

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, with device '8' upon riband; France & Germany Star; Defence and War Medals; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial, with Second Award Bar and rosette upon riband (7343634 Pte. B. Russell. R.A.M.C.), mounted as worn in two groups of three, contact marks, very fine (6)

B. Russell enlisted in the Royal Army Medical Corps at Manchester on 23 January 1934 and was attached to the 12th General Hospital. Called up in September 1939, he was embarked for Norway in April 1940 and was promoted A.U.L. Corporal on 25 June 1940. By June 1941 he was serving at No. 310 Prisoner of War Camp in Suez. After the Second World War he lived at Legh Court, Sale Moor; sold together with riband bars, bronze medal engraved 'West C'Wll. Sector H.G. Shoot 1947', Personal Particulars as of June 1941 and Royal British Legion Membership Card.

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Sold for
£90

Starting price
£60