Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Colour Sergeant W. Phillips, King’s Royal Rifle Corps and M.O.D. Police, captured by the Germans at Calais 1940

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (6843855 Cpl., K.R.R.C.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (6843855 Sjt., K.R.R.C.), mounted court style for wear; Police Long Service, E.II.R., 2nd issue (Const. William E. Phillips) minor contact marks, good very fine and better (6) £180-220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 60th Rifles and King’s Royal Rifle Corps.

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Sergeant William E. Phillips, K.R.R.C., was captured by the Germans at Calais and was held as a prisoner-of-war at Lamsdorf.

Sold with some biographical details and copied photographs. Also with an ‘Indian Football Association Calcutta’ Medal, silver and enamel, rev. inscribed, ‘1933’.