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Auction: 23002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 137

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'My life is warming up here. For warmth I can personally recommend a salvage job on a blazing liner in the tropical sun. Very exciting, and with WAS warm! We did a job which it was said to be impossible to do. So what?'

Major Clark quoted in The Recorder, 21 November 1941.

The mounted G.M. group of seven miniature dress medals worn by Colonel C. R. Clark, Royal Engineers, late London Regiment and Royal Flying Corps

Clark enlisted underage in the Great War and saw service with No. 16 Squadron on the Western Front before returning to his civilian life with the Port of London Authority - upon the outbreak of the Second World War he was quickly commissioned and earned his G.M. for his exceptional bravery in boarding and the taking off of a captured German Tank from the stricken, blazing and listing Georgic at Port Tewfik in July 1941 - he added a brace of 'mentions' for good measure before War's end

George Medal, G.VI.R.; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaves, mounted as worn, good very fine (7)

For his full-size awards and a biographical note, please see Lot 108.

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Sold for
£220

Starting price
£200