Four: Lance-Corporal V. S. Summers, Coldstream Guards, who was taken Prisoner of War in North Africa in 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, good very fine (4) £100-£140

Victor Stanley Summers, aged 18, from Taunton, Somerset, attested for the Coldstream Guards (no. 2658691) on 5 December 1938. During the Second War, he served with the M.E.F. from 16 December 1942, until captured on 16 March 1943. He spent the rest of the War as a Prisoner of War, initially in Italy, then VIIC, Sagan, Germany, until October 1943. Between October 1943 and February 1945 he was at Breig and Breslau Working Camps, and then at IVB Muhberg from 23 February until his release on 6 April 1945.

Sold with the recipient’s Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; Regular Army Certificate of Service; Soldiers Release Book; Driving Licences; Identity Cards; two photographs of Summers with other Guardsmen in dress uniform, and another as a P.O.W.; other documents; and copy of P.O.W. questionnaire.