Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Driver H. O. J. Hambridge, Royal Engineers, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Tobruk on 1 June 1942

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, with Army Council enclosure, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. H. Hambridge, 30 Crown Road, Kidlington, Oxford’; together with the recipient’s German P.O.W. identity tag ‘Stalag IV B 259838’, extremely fine (4) £80-£120

Herman Olaf Jack Hambridge was born in March 1922 and attested for the Royal Engineers on 16 October 1939. He served with 235 Field Park Company during the Second World War, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War at Tobruk on 1 June 1942. Held at camps initially in Italy, and then at Werdau, he was liberated on 16 April 1945.

Sold together with a copy of the recipient’s M.I.9 P.O.W. Questionnaire.