Auction Catalogue

22 September 2006

Starting at 11:30 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 996

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22 September 2006

Hammer Price:
£50

Three: Lance-Bombardier L. A. Cottell, Royal Artillery, a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (3) £60-80

Lance-Bombardier Leslie Allan Cottell, Royal Artillery, was captured and held by the Japanese in Java. Sold with card medal forwarding box addressed to ‘Mr L. A. Cottell, 23 The Avenue, Hornchurch, Essex’, forwarding slip and copied Japanese P.O.W. records.