Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Warrant Officer Class 2 W. A. Coombe, Royal Army Service Corps, captured at Singapore, 15 February 1942

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, these unnamed; General Service 1962, 1 clasp, Malay Peninsula (22539119 W.O. Cl. 2, RASC); Army L.S. & G.C., E.II.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (T/22539119 S. Sgt., R.A.S.C.) mounted as worn, very fine and better (5) £280-320

Wilfred Albert Coombe was born on 28 July 1918 and enlisted on 3 May 1937, his home address given as Torquay, Devon. Serving as a Driver in the 18th Division H.Q. R.A.S.C., he was captured at Singapore on 15 February 1942 and held for the remainder of the war as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese, held at Changi. Liberated on 2 September 1945. With copied research.