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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 168

Three: Lieutenant P. S. Henderson, Royal Tank Regiment

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, with their named card box of issue to 'Lt. P. S. Henderson (R.T.R.), R.A.C. Depot, Bovington, Dorset.', mounted as worn, good very fine (3)

Peter Samuel Henderson was born at Liverpool on 4 March 1925 and was educated at Skinner's School, Tunbridge Wells and was a Clerk in a Local Government Rate & Tax Department. He served in the ranks of the Royal Armoured Corps from 4 February 1943-8 July 1944, before being commissioned 2nd Lieutenant. He served in North West Europe from 2 December 1944 and joined 1 Royal Tank Regiment on 19 December 1944. Admitted to hospital whilst on leave in 1947, he was at the Kent & Sussex Hospital with meningococcal septicaemia and was placed on the Half Pay List due to disability in July 1948. Discharged in July 1953, he died on 9 May 1954; sold together with his cap Badge, RTR shoulder boards, besides copied research including a fine portrait.

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