Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Corporal T. H. Pinder, Hampshire Regiment, later Royal Military Police, taken Prisoner of War in North Africa, 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; War Medal 1939-45; General Service Medal 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (21015391 Cpl. T. H. Pinder. R.M.P.) nearly extremely fine (4) £100-140

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

View
Collection

Thomas Henry Pinder was born on 24 January 1923, and attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 29 January 1942. He served with the Regiment in North Africa, and was taken prisoner of war there in 1943. He was interned at Slalag VIIIB at Lamsdorf, Poland, and was possibly part of the ‘death march’ from that camp in early 1945. In the early 1950s he re-enlisted in the Royal Military Police and served in Malaya, being advanced to the rank of Corporal. He died in London in June 1996.