Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Trooper R. L. Stanley (formerly Otto Zwieback), Royal Armoured Corps, late Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps, who made his way to England on being deported from Dachau in 1938

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, in their original addressed card forwarding box, together with the recipient’s wartime identity discs, one of them hand inscribed ‘Dachau’ (2), extremely fine and entirely as issued (6) £180-220

Roger Louis Stanley (formerly Otto Zwieback) was born in April 1914 in Vienna, the son of Josef and Irene Zwieback. His mother was deported to Lodz Ghetto in 1942 and thence to Auschwitz, while for his own part Otto was deported from Dachau in 1938, and managed to make his way to England, where he adopted the nom de guerre ‘Roger Louis Stanley’. Enlisting in the Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps in February 1940, he subsequently transferred to the Royal Armoured Corps in December 1943, in which latter capacity he witnessed active service in the North West Europe operations of 1944-45. He was released to the Army Reserve in February 1946, having won entitlement to the above described awards (accompanying Army Records letter, dated 16 October 1973, refers), and died back in Vorarlberg, Austria in January 1971.