Auction Catalogue

28 February & 1 March 2018

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Lot

№ 183

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28 February 2018

Hammer Price:
£500

Eight: Corporal W. H. Clark, Dorset Regiment, later Gloucestershire Regiment

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5725292 Pte. W. H. Clark. Dorset R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (5725292 Cpl. W. Clark. Glosters.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, edge bruising to first, otherwise good very fine or better (8) £400-500

W. H. Clark attested for the Dorset Regiment in 1935, and served with the 2nd Battalion in Palestine from 10 June to 20 December 1936. He subsequently served during the Second World War in North Africa, Italy, and north-west Europe post D-Day. He served with the Gloucestershire Regiment in Korea, before returning to the U.K. where he took up the post of Corporal Instructor at an Army Cadet Force Christmas Holiday Camp held at the School of Infantry, Warminster. The following year he joined ‘B’ Company, Gloucestershire Regiment following his time as permanent instructional staff (Back Badge, Summer 1953 refers).

Sold together with a photograph of the recipient.