Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Captain A. P. Wolken, Royal Army Medical Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Germany, Federal Republic, Order of Merit, Cross of Merit First Class (Officer) breast badge, gilt and enamel, pin-backed, with lapel rosette, in Steinhauer &, Lück, Lüdenscheid case of issue, good very fine and better (6) £160-£200

Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007.

Peter Arthur Wolken was commissioned Lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps in August 1944 and served during the Second World War in the North Africa Sector. Ranked as a War Substantive Captain from August 1945, he was released from the service in 1948. He was awarded the Officer’s Cross of the German Federal Republic Order of Merit by President Karl Carstens on 22 August 1979, with the presentation taking place in the Ambassador’s Residence in London on 13 December 1979. Dr Wolken, a former German citizen, received the award in recognition of services rendered to the Federal Republic; as a medical doctor, he had provided medical services and advice to the German Embassy and its staff. He died in London on 2 February 1993.

Sold with original ‘Buckingham Palace’ notification granting Dr. Arthur Peter Wolken ‘permission to wear’ the ‘insignia of The Cross of an Officer of The Order of Merit’, dated 7 February 1980; and copied research.