Orders, Decorations and Medals

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (4858509 Pte. G. Squires, Leic. R.), surname officially corrected, edge bruising, good very fine £120-160

George Herbert Squires died of dysentery on 28 July 1942, aged 22 years, while being held as a P.O.W. by the Japanese at Pudu jail on the Malayan Peninsula. A member of the 1st Battalion, Leicestershire Regiment, he was the son of Charles William and Rose Ann Squires of Warsop, Nottinghamshire. His remains were re-interred after the War in the Kuala Lumpur (Cheras Road) Civil Cemetery.