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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 144

(x) General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, S. E. Asia 1945-46, Palestine 1945-48 (14862928 Pte. W. L. Benson. A.A.C.), very fine

W. L. Benson served with the 13 Parachute Battalion, Army Air Corps in South East Asia from 16 February-2 May 1946 and in Palestine from 6 November 1946-30 November 1947.

He would have been posted back to Singapore in June 1946, following the mutiny of the 13th Parachute Battalion. The infamous mutiny of the 13th (Lancashire) Parachute Battalion in Malaya in 1946 had serious consequences for all members of that unit, both mutineers and those that remained loyal. Military command invoked strict security censorship, and rapidly worked to diffuse and cover-up the shambolic incident, not least by convicting 252 men of the battalion for Mutiny, disbanding the unit, and positing-out former loyal members of the Battalion to other army units.

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Sold for
£240

Starting price
£140