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№ 133

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22 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£140

Five: attributed to Sergeant J. A. McIntosh, ‘L’ Detachment, Special Air Service Regiment

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, privately inscribed on the reverse (Sgt. J. A. McIntosh, L Detach S.A.S. 1941-43); Italy Star; Defence and War Medals, all except ‘Africa Star’ unnamed, very fine (5) £25-35

Ex D.N.W. 25 March 1997, lot 580.

Sold with correspondence which indicated that Sergeant McIntosh subsequently served with the Special Raiding Squadron in Sicily in 1943, and was possibly captured and escaped from Termoli.