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Auction: 23003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 184

Six: Colour Sergeant H. Lancaster, Duke of Wellington's Regiment, late York and Lancaster Regiment, who was wounded at Salerno and taken Prisoner-of-War

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53 (21013003 C.Sjt. H. Lancaster. D.W.R.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, overall very fine (6)

H. Lancaster served with the 6th Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment with the number 14355009 during the Second World War. Seeing service with his battalion during the Salerno Landings, Lancaster was wounded there on 12 October 1943. He was later posted as missing in action (22 January 1944) and soon confirmed to be in German hands.

Lancaster spent the rest of the war at in Stalag 4f Harmansdorf, Chemnitz. He was liberated by the Americans in March 1945 and recalled for the Korean War with the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. He was later to serve as Company Quartermaster Sergeant at Gibraltar in 1955 with the same unit; sold together with copied casualty lists and a photograph of the '1st Battalion Duke of Wellington's WOs & Sgts Mess - Gibraltar 1955'.

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Sold for
£300

Starting price
£180