Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (14690682 Spr. S. A. Minshull. R.E.) good very fine £100-£140

Stanley Albert Minshull was born in Mussouri, India, on 20 August 1925 and served with the 9th Airborne Squadron Royal Engineers in post-War Palestine. He was killed on 5 January 1946 when the jeep in which he was travelling collided with a car on the Gaza-Rehovoth Road; the driver of the jeep, a sapper in the same unit, and two other occupants were slightly injured. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Ramleh War Cemetery.