Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Attributed to Private R. D. Tucker, 6th Commandos, attached Leicestershire Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War in Tunisia in 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue, addressed to ‘Mr. R. D. Tucker, Rum Puncheon Hotel, Market Place, Boston, Lincolnshire’; together with Army Council enclosure and the recipient’s two card identity discs, embossed ‘4864330 R. D. Tucker C.E.’, extremely fine (3) £80-£120

Roland Tucker, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Tucker, of the Rum Puncheon Hotel, Boston, Lincolnshire, was educated at Boston Grammar School. ‘He joined up in May 1940 and served with the Commandos. He took part in the raids on Lofotne (his first raid) and St. Nazaire, and many other small hit-and-run raids. He later went out to the Middle East, where he was taken prisoner (in Tunisia) in 1943. He was then serving with the 6th Commandos, attached to the Leicestershire Regiment.’ (newspaper cutting with lot refers).