General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (S/19026440 Pte. H. Tribich. R.A.S.C.) very fine £60-80

Hyman Tribich was born at Bethnal Green, London, in 1921, the son of Judah Tribich, who had served during the Great War in one of the Labour Corps Battalions of the Middlesex Regiment. He attested for the Royal Artillery in 1941, but was discharged on 24 February 1943. He later joined the Royal Army Service Corps, and served at the R.A.S.C. Headquarters, Rafah, South Gaza. He died in 2002.
He is confirmed on the WW2 AJEX (The Association of Jewish Ex-Servicemen and Women) roll.

Approximately 50,000 British Jews served in the British Army during the Second World War, but shortly after the cessation of hostilities most were demobbed, and, owing to an Army policy at the time, very few Jewish soldiers were stationed in Palestine between 1945-48 as it was felt that they stood a very high risk of collaborating with the local population.