Auction Catalogue

25 May 2022

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№ 218

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25 May 2022

Hammer Price:
£45

Six: Gunner W. L. Jones, South African Artillery

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, these all officially named ‘329611 W. L. Jones’, in their original envelopes of issue, together with U.D.F. medal entitlement slip, awards notification letter with ribbons for tunic, and original Registered packet addressed to the recipient at Sandringham, Johannesburg, good very fine (6) £40-£50

Wyndham Lloyd Jones was born in Kimberley on 13 December 1913, and was an underground mine surveyor living with his wife in Johannesburg when he attested for Volunteer Units of the U.D.F. on 1 August 1940. He assumed full-time service in the South African Artillery at Potchefstroom on 29 July 1942, and served as a Gunner with the 23rd Field Regiment, S.A.A. in Africa and Italy. He was discharged medically unfit on 23 April 1946.

Sold with copied record of service.