Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private R. L. White, Glosters, late Devon Regiment, taken prisoner at Imjin River
General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (22301234 Pte., Devon) unit officially corrected; Korea 1950-53 (22301234 Pte., Glosters); U.N. Korea, extremely fine (3)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals Relating to the Korean War 1950-53.

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By the end of the Imjin battle 21 officers and 501 men of the Glosters were to be captured by the Chinese. Private R. L. White is recorded as having been captured on 26 April, 1951.