Lot Archive

Lot

№ 873

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13 December 2007

Hammer Price:
£580

Four: Private B. S. Parker, Army Air Corps

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; General Service 1918-62, 3 clasps, S.E. Asia 1945-46, Palestine 1945-48, Malaya (14984817 Pte., A.A.C.) good very fine (4) £400-500

A note with the medals states, ‘Attended Parachute Course 150 and graduated on 22 Jan. 1945. He [was] posted to 7 Para and later 12 Para (Airborne Forces Museum) and participated in Operation Varsity in March of 1945. After the war he served in South East Asia and then Palestine. Later in his career he also served in Malaya, again believed to be with SAS’. Sold with cloth ‘Parachute Wings’.