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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 175

Pair: Acting Lance-Corporal T. Maude, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, who bravely carried a wounded soldier back to Allied lines after the patrol he was leading was targeted by mortars

Korea 1950-53 (22421089 Pte. T. Maude. D.W.R.); U.N. Korea 1954-50, contact wear, slight edge bruising, very fine (2)

Thomas Maude (known as 'Tom') was a regular soldier from Halifax. He was in command of a four-man patrol when, moving through a gap in the wire into No-Mans Land, a mortar bomb landed amongst them. Private David Ellison was wounded and Lance-Corporal Maude carried him back through the wire on his shoulders. Notably included in the patrol was the Korean soldier 9368853 Private Kim Duck Yong, who was attached to 'D' Company.

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Sold for
£190

Starting price
£110