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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 216

General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, S. E. Asia 1945-46, Palestine 1945-48 (14495200. Cpl. L. R. Edbrooke. Int. Corps.), second clasp loose upon riband, extremely fine

'S. E. Asia 1945-46' clasp earned with 597 Field Service Section, Intelligence Corps.

'Palestine 1945-48' clasp earned with 292 Field Service Section, Intelligence Corps.

Lawrence Robert Edbrooke was born in 1926, the son of Doctor Frank Robert Edbrooke. Educated at Haileybury School, young Edbrooke excelled, playing in the cricket XI and rugby XV and eventually being Head Boy.

In 1944 he joined the ranks of the Intelligence Corps and is recorded on the Bletchley Park Roll of Honour for his time served in the Wireless Experimental Depot at Abbottabad, India during the Second World War. The Wireless Experimental Centre (WEC) was one of two overseas outposts of Station X, Bletchley Park.

Having left the British Army he was awarded a scholarship to read Classics at Clare College, Cambridge and in his third year was elected as a Master to Shrewsbury School. He thrived and was fondly remembered by a generation of Salopians, besides volunteering for the Citizen's Advice Bureau amongst prison work and died on 2 December 2007; sold together with copied extracts including his obituary and a related cap Badge.




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£350

Starting price
£130