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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 344

Sold by Order of a Direct Descendant

Five: attributed to Captain G. R. Harden, Royal Artillery, who died during the Italian campaign on 6 November 1944

1939-45 Star (Lt. G. R. Harden 73 A/T. R.A.); Africa Star, clasp, 8th Army (Lt. G. R. Harden 95 A/T. R.A.); Italy Star (Capt. G. R. Harden 3 Fd R.A.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45 (Capt. G. R. Harden R.A.), privately engraved naming as stated, mounted as worn, very fine (5)

George Robert Harden was born in Warwickshire in 1920. He became a Second Lieutenant with the Royal Artillery on 3 July 1939. Harden is noted as being a wounded in the Italian campaign in September 1944 (exact date was not originally recorded). He is however noted as being dangerously ill on 29 October 1944 and died on 6 November 1944, he is buried in the Rome War Cemetery.

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Estimate
£40 to £60

Starting price
£30