Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Private J. A. Harrell, Gloucstershire Regiment

Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (5726288 Pte., Glosters), number officially renamed; U.N. Korea, unnamed, minor contact marks, very fine (2) £200-250

Joseph Anthony James Harrell was born on 23 February 1922. A Cabinet Maker by trade, he enlisted into the 2nd Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment on 11 January 1939. With them, he entered France and was captured at Merville, France on 27 May 1940. As a prisoner-of-war he was held at Stalag 344 at Lamsdorf, June 1940-August 1943 and Stalag 8A at Gorlitz, April 1944-February 1945. For the Korean War he served with the Glosters - with the same regimental number, possibly on attachment. Sold with three copied photographs and copied P.O.W. debriefing papers. In the latter under ‘escapes’, he states, ‘Escaped on the line of march 1940. Not worth relating. I was away 24 hours and then retaken’.