Auction Catalogue

25 & 26 June 2008

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1075

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26 June 2008

Hammer Price:
£310

Five: Private H. Winter, Welsh Regiment, captured in Crete, 6 January 1941

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3959444 Pte., Welsh); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £200-250

Harry Winter was born on 9 October 1918. A Plumber by occupation, and living at 51 Wyndham Crescent, Canton, Cardiff, he enlisted into the Welsh Regiment on 18 April 1936. With the regiment he served in Palestine before the war. Serving with the 1st Battalion Welsh Regiment he was captured by the Germans in Crete on 6 January 1941. He was held as a prisoner-of-war at Camp IVB at Mülhberg, September-November 1941; Camp IVC at Suderenland, November 1941-September 1944, and at Camp IVD at Torgau, September 1944-April 1945, during which time he worked in the Stone Quarries at Suderenland, November 1941-September 1944 and the Coal Mines at Halle, September 1944-April 1945. Sold with copied ex-P.O.W. Questionnaire Form and with named card box of issue for G.S.M.