Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (3526576 Pte. H. E. Brant. Manch.) in named card box of issue, number partially officially corrected, extremely fine £140-£180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Robert Barltrop Collection of Medals to the Manchester Regiment.

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Harold Edwin Brant was born in April 1913. He served in 1st Battalion, Manchester Regiment and was taken prisoner following the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942. He died in Thailand whilst a Prisoner of War of the Japanese on 24 August 1943, aged 30, and is buried in Thanbyuzayat War Cemetery, Burma. He was the son of Albert and Rose Brant of Manor Cottage, Binfield, Berkshire.

Sold with copied research.