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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 412

Three: Private R. Galloway, Highland Light Infantry, taken Prisoner of War during the retreat to Dunkirk

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, Territorial, G.VI.R. (3303462 Pte. A. Galloway. 9-H.L.I.), contact marks and edge bruising to third, that last partially obscuring the first two digits of the number, overall very fine (3)

R. Galloway served with the 1st (Glasgow Highlanders) Battalion, Highland Light Infantry. The casualty roll lists his date of capture as 'date not reported' but it was certainly at some stage during the retreat to Dunkirk, possibly at Rexpoëde were the Battalion was briefly encircled only to break out towards the beaches. Galloway was taken to Stalag IV-C, Wistritz bei Teplitz, in what was then Czechoslovakia; sold together with copied casualty lists, a Prisoner of War roll and extracts relating to the Highland Light Infantry.

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£150

Starting price
£110