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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 194

Six: Sergeant G. W. Haxell, Royal Artillery, late Able Seaman, Merchant Navy

1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, Territorial, E.II.R. (11008591 Sgt. G. W. Haxell. R.A.), mounted as worn, very fine and an unusual combination (6)

Geoffrey Walter Haxell was born at Dovercourt, Essex on 21 June 1924 and joined the Merchant Navy as a Deck Boy aboard the Amsterdam on 4 July 1941. That vessel would be lost off Juno Beach in August 1944 but Haxell had joined the Empire Islander as an Able Seaman on 16 February 1944. In June 1947 he enlisted with the Royal Artillery in and served with 419 Coastal Regiment, being awarded his T.E.M. in 1960. Haxell died at 12 Lime Avenue, Harwich on 3 April 2020; sold together with copied research.

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£80

Starting price
£100