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1 & 2 March 2017

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№ 310

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1 March 2017

Hammer Price:
£800

Six: Private G. P. Winter, Gloucestershire Regiment, late Royal Artillery

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (1609902 Pte. P. G. Winter. Glosters.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, good very fine (6) £600-800

George Philip Winter was born on 19 September 1920 at Consett, C. Durham, and enlisted in the Royal Artillery in September 1940, reversing his Christian names on enlistment. He served with the Artillery during the Second World War, before transferring to the Gloucestershire Regiment on 5 March 1945.

Recalled to the Colours for service in the Korean War, he was captured at the Battle of Imjin, April 1951. Confirmation that he was a prisoner of war came in a statement from Private H. Graham of the Assault Pioneer Platoon on 14 May 1951, whose statement of capture read: ‘At about 10:30 hours on 25 April we had to make our way down the hill which we had been defending and try to regain our own lines. I saw the following captured and marched off by the enemy:- Cpl Boughton DCM, L/Cpl Perkins, L/Cpl Swancott, Privates Furminger, Winters, and Mason.’
There were no men named Private Winters serving with the Battalion but two named Winter. Private D. W. Winter of ‘B’ Company had already been killed in action, and so the War Office therefore correctly assumed the soldier reported by Graham to be Private P. G. Winter. He was released from Camp One on 14 August 1953 and sailed home aboard the
Asturias. A truck driver in civilian life, he died at home in Gateshead on 1 July 1981.