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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 662

Five: M. P. Padua, Cape Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army, (C284774 M. P. Padua); Defence and War Medals 1939-45 (C284774 M. P. Padua); Africa Service Medal 1939-45 (C284774 M. P. Padua), very fine (5)

Martin Philip Padua worked as a driver prior to enlistment. However with the outbreak of the Second World War he joined up in Cape Town on 17 April 1941. Perhaps due to his pre-war work he was posted to the Cape Corps, a non-combatant support service. He is noted as having worked for an ammunition company during this time and going 'absent without leave' in August 1943, about a week after the death of his wife. Demobilised in Cape Town on 6 August 1946; sold together with riband bar, photographs and original documentation.

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£45

Starting price
£30