Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant W. G. Pollock, 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps, late Lincolnshire Regiment

1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with M.I.D. oak leaf; Efficiency Medal, G.V.R., Territorial, with 2 Additional Award Bars (4796556 Sjt. W. G. Pollock. 4 – Linc. R.) mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £70-£90

William George Pollock was born in Rutland on 8 February 1906 and joined the 4th Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment (Territorial Force) in 1923. Mobilised on 29 September 1939, he embarked for France with the British Expeditionary Force on 27 April 1940 but was evacuated from Dunkirk on 2 June 1940. Transferring to the Royal Army Ordnance Corps on 11 April 1941 and the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers on 2 October 1942, he then joined 49th Reconnaissance Regiment, Royal Armoured Corps on 3 February 1944. On 30 June 1944 he again embarked for France, remaining with this Regiment for the duration of the War, returning home on 14 November 1945.

M.I.D. unconfirmed.