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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 454

Pair: Warrant Officer Class 1 J. Pickanick, Southern Rhodesian Forces

War Medal 1939-45; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R, Southern Rhodesia (X1295 W.O.1 Joseph Pickanick), good very fine (2)

Joseph Pickanick was born on 3 January 1915 in Bulawayo, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) he attended University in Cape Town from 1932-1936 and qualified as B.A., L.L.B.

Like many in Rhodesia he served in the Southern Rhodesia Territorial Force and during the Second World War he must have done full time service as he qualified for the War Medal (if it had been part time it would have been the Southern Rhodesia Service Medal) and the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, which was awarded in 1946. He was discharged on 26 January 1946.

In 1952 he was a working as a book seller and provider of stationary and lived at 26 Harvey Brown Avenue, Salisbury; with thanks to Paul Brewster for the research into this recipient.


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