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27 & 28 September 2016

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Lot

№ 979

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28 September 2016

Hammer Price:
£80

Three: Trooper T. H. B. Todd, Royal Armoured Corps, who was taken P.O.W. in North Africa

1939-45
Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, in their original partly addressed card forwarding box with Army Council campaign award slip, together with related metalled P.O.W. tag inscribed, ‘Stalag IV B 227402’, extremely fine (3) £60-80

Provenance: Eric Smith Collection, DNW, November 2009.

T. H. B. Todd
, a native of Braintree, Essex, was taken P.O.W. while serving as a Trooper in the R.A.C. in North Africa and originally held in Campo 85 in Italy, but subsequently at Stalag IV B at Mühlberg on the Elbe, in addition to Stalag IV D at Torgau.