Orders, Decorations and Medals

Five: Corporal D. Bluston, Royal Army Medical Corps - mentioned in despatches for his ‘distinguished services during the liberation of prisoners in German Concentration Camps’

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf; Czechoslovakia, Medal of Military Merit, 2nd Class, bronze, all unnamed, extremely fine (5) £300-360

M.I.D. London Gazette 18 October 1945. ‘... in recognition of distinguished services during the liberation of prisoners in German Concentration Camps’. ‘7384034 Corpl. D. Bluston [Royal Army Medical Corps]’.

Corporal Bluston, R.A.M.C. was probably mentioned in despatches for his services during the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945 and in the humanitarian efforts made to save life in the months following.

With card medal forwarding box, addressed to ‘Mr D. Bluston, 40 Courtland Ave., Ilford, Essex’ and with War Office slip, dated October 1949 which accompanied the Czech Medal of Military Merit; this addressed to ‘Cpl. D. Bluston, 9 St. Margarets Road, Wanstead, London. E.12’ With copied gazette extract.