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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 473

(x) General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14629740 Pte A S Drew KSLI), a slightly later issue on a thick flan, good very fine

A. S. Drew was wounded in action in North-West Europe on 25 April 1945 with the 2nd Battalion, King's Shropshire Light Infantry. The Battalion had landed on Sword Beach, Queen Sector on D-Day, 6 June 1944. By late April they were involved in clearing the remains of the fanatical German defenders who remained in and around Bremen. Drew and his comrades had been landed by Buffalo amphibious vehicles up the Dreye causeway at 2300hrs on 24 April for their attack.

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