Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Lot 2181 SESSION 11 (9.30AM THURSDAY 31ST MARCH) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Estimate $700
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $900
GROUP OF FIVE TO POW: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. SX 2130 S.S.Martin on all medals. Impressed. Mounted for display, very fine.
Stanley Stephen Martin, labourer, age 21, born at Balaklava, Sth Aust; Enl.26Mar1940 at Adelaide, Sth Aust; Emb.24Jun1940 from Adelaide for the UK; WIA 04Aug1941 Tobruk during an attack on Germans holding Post S7; Operations North Africa from 30Jun1942; POW 17Jul1942 El Alamein during a battalion attack on the enemy at Trig 22 near Makh Khad Ridge; confirmed POW 29Oct1942; Interned Camp 51 PM3450 07Mar1943; transferred from Italy to Germany and interned Stalag 18A 07Mar1944; Disemb. Liverpool UK 06Feb1945; Disch in England 28Aug1945.
With copy of Service File and research.
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