Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant E. A. L. Connelley, Royal Army Service Corps, attached 77th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Java, 9 March 1942

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (Sergt. Edward A. L. Connelley.), with ‘Long Service, 1958’ Additional Award Bar, nearly extremely fine (4) £120-160

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

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Edward Arthur Leonard Connelley was born on 15 July 1910, and attested for the Royal Army Service Corps at Harringay, London, in June 1941. Attached to the 77th Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, he served during the Second World War in the far east at Java, Dutch East Indies, from 3 February 1942, and was taken prisoner of war at the fall of Java on 9 March 1942. Held initially at Tanjaong Priok Prisoner of War Camp, Jakarta, he was transferred to Changi Prison on 25 September 1942, and then spent the rest of the War as a prisoner at Kuching Camp, Borneo, from 13 October 1942.