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Auction: 7012 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 950

A Second World War Group of Three to Private R.J. Pearce, Gloucestershire Regiment, Made Prisoner of War at Dunkirk, 30.5.1940 1939-1945 Star; War Medal; Army Long Service & G.C., G.VI.R., with ´Regular Army´ bar suspension (5179320 Pte. R.J. Pearce. Glosters), good very fine or better, with photographic image of recipient (3) Estimate £ 120-150 5179320 Private R.J. Pearce enlisted 2nd Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment, 1926; High Jump Champion 1931; served during the Second World War with the regiment in France from 2.10.1939; he was captured at Toruni, Dunkirk, 30.5.1940 and imprisoned at Stalag 8B, Lamfdorf, Near Breslau, Germany; also at Stalag E35, Sosnovich, Poland; Pearce was finally liberated in 1945, after the 1500 mile "death march" back to Germany.

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£170