Special Collections

Sold on 2 April 2004

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A Collection of Medals to the 13th Regiment and Somerset Light Infantry

Lot

№ 365

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2 April 2004

Hammer Price:
£110

Four: Private J. S. Jacobs, Somerset Light Infantry, who died in Burma in April 1944

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals,
in original card forwarding box with Army Council condolence slip, nearly extremely fine (4) £40-60

John Stanley Jacobs, who was from Holborn, London, died in Burma on 25 April 1944, while serving in the 1st Battalion, Somerset Light Infantry. Aged 35 years, he was interred in the Chittagong War Cemetery.