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№ 657

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2 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£85

Assorted wartime memorabilia appertaining to Corporal A. A. Robertson, Royal Army Service Corps, including his pocket diary for 1944, with several interesting entries relating to the advance of his unit through France, Belgium and Holland (e.g. 17 September 1944: ‘At. 12.30 p.m. saw Airborne Army coming over [en route to Arnhem]. Astounding sight’); assorted letters from family and friends (1942-47); a German Reich I.D. Card, with portrait photograph and official stamps, dated 12 September 1944 and in the name of ‘Ruth Schroder’, to whom Robertson became engaged in June 1946; several wartime photographs; card forwarding box and Army Council slip for his 1949-45 campaign awards; and other memorabilia, including a signed photographic postcard of George Robey, generally in excellent condition (Lot) £40-60