Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private S. W. Morgan, Welch Regiment, who was taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Crete, 1 June 1941

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, in named card box of issue addressed to ‘Mr. S. Morgan, Troed Bryn, New Road, Neath, Glam’, nearly extremely fine (3) £80-£120

Stanley William Morgan was born on 14 December 1919 and attested for the Welch Regiment at Cardiff on 16 March 1940. He served with them during the Second World War in Egypt from 13 June 1940 to 14 February 1941, and then in Crete, and was taken Prisoner of War following the Fall of Crete on 1 June 1941. He was held in Lamsdorf (Oberschleisen) (Camp No. 344) P.O.W. Camp with prisoner number 6433, and was released in May 1945.

Sold together with the recipient’s original brown Soldier’s Service and Pay Book; a Neath Abbey Comforts Fund booklet listing Private S. Morgan as a Prisoner of War and addressed to Stan Morgan; four P.O.W. postcards home to his mother from Lamsdorf; Record of Service and two British Military Authority monetary notes, one for the sum of one shilling and another for two shillings and sixpence.