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Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd

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№ 126

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17 February 2021

Hammer Price:
£400

Six: Major N. B. Robins, Royal Signals, who was taken Prisoner of War following the Fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, South Arabia (Major N. B. Robins. E.R.D. R. Signals.); Army Emergency Reserve Decoration, E.II.R., reverse officially dated 1963, with integral top riband bar, good very fine (6) £400-£500

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Noel Bendor Robins was born in East Cowes, Isle of Wight, on 24 July 1914 and enlisted in the Royal Signals in October 1938. Commissioned Second Lieutenant on 2 September 1939, he served during the Second World War in Malaya, and was taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Singapore on 1 February 1942. Held captive for the remainder of the War in various camps in Thailand involved in construction of the Burma Railway, he was repatriated following the cessation of hostilities on 15 August 1945. Advanced Major on 16 February 1953, he retired on 25 June 1969.

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