Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (5500123 Pte. D. S. Stout. Glosters.) nearly extremely fine £360-400

David Samuel Stout was born in Bournemouth on 18 October 1920, and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 21 April 1939. He served with the British Expeditionary Force in France and Belgium, having transferred to the Royal West Surrey Regiment with a draft from the Hampshires, and was taken prisoner of war in Belgium on 21 May 1940. Held at Stalag 20A at Thorn, Poland, from June 1940 until January 1941, and at Stalag 20B at Willenburg, East Prussia, from January 1941 until January 1945, he was liberated and repatriated at the end of the War. Transferring to the Reserve in 1946, he was recalled to the Colours for service in Korea, and served with the Gloucestershire Regiment. A farm stock-hand in civilian life, he married Kathleen Chambers in Bournemouth on 25 September 1945, with whom he had 9 children, and died at Alford, Lincolnshire, on 7 February 1985.

Sold with copied research, including the recipient’s M.I.9 Prisoner of War Questionnaire.