Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Sapper J. McFarlane, Royal Engineers, taken Prisoner of War at Bushy during the Fall of France on 9 June 1940

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (2091915 Spr J Mc.Farlane RE) last a later issue, extremely fine (3) £80-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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John McFarlane was born in Dundee, Scotland, on 27 July 1906, and attested for the Territorial Army. Mobilised on the outbreak of the Second World War, he served with the 237th Field Company, Royal Engineers, as part of the 51st Highland Division with the British Expeditionary Force, and was taken prisoner of war at Bushy on 9 June 1940. He was held at various prisoner of war camps is Thorn, Marienburg, and Altengrabow, and was eventually liberated on 3 May 1945.