Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private H. S. Cribbes, Army Catering Corps, late Seaforth Highlanders

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (2823392 Pte. H. Cribbes. A.C.C.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, good very fine (4) £140-£180

Harry Scott Cribbs was born on 29 August 1908, at Falkirk, Stirlingshire. His father, a respected doctor, died after an accident in February 1912. Harry Cribbs was a clerk when he emigrated with his brother and mother to Canada in April 1926. Returning to Scotland in June 1932, he joined the Seaforth Highlanders (TA) on 8 November 1939. Joining the 6th Battalion on 18 April 1940, he was taken prisoner of war at Vimy Ridge on 23 May 1940. Held at Camp 20A (Thorn Podgorz) he was released in April 1945. Released to reserve on 23 February 1946, Cribbs re-enlisted into the 1st Seaforths in September 1946. He served in Singapore until July 1950 with the Seaforths and, from August 1949, the Army Catering Corps as a voluntary transfer. In September 1951 he embarked for Japan and saw service in Korea as a cook attached to 28 Company, Royal Army Service Corps. Leaving Korea in May 1953, he was attached to several R.A. units until discharged in September 1957. Harry Cribbs died in Colchester in December 1985 aged 77.

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