General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Pal/12933 Pte. H. Woler. Pal Regt.) nearly extremely fine £100-£140

Hersz Woler (also recorded as Woller) was born at Nasielsk, Poland, on 20 October 1921 and served with the 603rd (Palestine) Company, Auxiliary Military Pioneer Corps during the Second World War. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War at the fall of Greece on 29 April 1941, and was held initially at Stalag XVIIIA from 1 July 1941, and then at Stalag VIIIB from 1 August 1941. At the war’s end, he was repatriated to Palestine where he re-attested for The Palestine Regiment and served for a period during the troubles preceding the end of the British Mandate. His entry on the Palestine 1945-48 medal roll, informs he lived at Haifa, Israel.

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