Auction Catalogue

15 March 2023

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Lot

№ 455

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15 March 2023

Hammer Price:
£180

Pair: Private A. T. Pursloe, Gloucestershire Regiment

Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (22400157 Pte. A. T. Pursloe. Glosters.) officially re-impressed naming; U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued, nearly very fine (2) £200-£240

Anthony (‘Tony’) Thomas Pursloe was born at Prestbury, near Cheltenham on 11 April 1932. Educated in Cheltenham, he worked for a car dealer and garage proprietor before commencing his National Service in the summer of 1950. It is speculated that he served in the Glosters as a post Imjin reinforcement. Married in Cheltenham in 1954, he died there aged 60 in June 1992.

Sold with copied research and birth certificate.