Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Private D. W. English, 2/2 Australian Pioneer Battalion, who died as a P.O.W. in Thailand
1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal; Australia Service Mdal, all officially impressed (WX13963 D. W. English) extremely fine (4) £180-220

Donald William English was reported missing on 30 April 1942, and confirmed as P.O.W. in October 1942. In December 1944 he was reported as being Interned in a Thai Camp, but is known to have died of illness at the 30 Km mark on the Burma-Thailand Railway on 4 August 1943. Sold with original official confirmation of medals and other details.