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Six: Attributed to Trooper J. Perry 5th Royal Tank Regiment India General Service 1908-35,...
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Six: Attributed to Trooper J. Perry 5th Royal Tank Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (7880597 Tpr. J. Perry 1 ACC RTC) re-named; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, the last five all privately engraved ‘7880597 Tpr. J. Perry 5 RTR’, the first polished, nearly very fine the others very fine Five: Attributed to Sergeant D. T. Tillson, 131/22 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine (11) £70-£90 --- Joseph Perry is confirmed on the Medal roll for the 1st Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps as having received the India General Service Medal with clasp for North West Frontier 1930-31. Sold with Army Council medal issue slip for five medals and one clasp, Royal Tank Regiment white metal cap badge with King’s Crown with two lugs and red leather backing, original distressed National Registration Identity Card named to Joseph Perry of Wrexham, named Royal British Legion membership cards and several named Royal British Legion membership subscription receipts, several press cuttings relating to El Alamein reunion meetings; and several topographic and regimental fancy dress photographs the majority apparently taken in India. Douglas Thomas Tillson was born on 15 November 1918. He enlisted for the Royal Artillery (Militia) at Southend on 15 July 1939 serving in North Africa and Italy, being released in 1946. His Army Books confirm the award of the five medals and 8th Army clasp. Sold with the recipient’s riband bar for the five medals, and a large quantity of original documentation including, two original Army ‘Brown’ Soldiers Service and Pay Books (Army Book 64) one in relic condition, Membership card for the Southend on Sea Royal Artillery Association, original Certificate of Transfer to Army Reserve, dated 9 May 1946, hospital discharge certificate noting his service with 131/32 H.A.A. Regiment, dated March 1944, original 8th Army propaganda notice in Italian, Allied Military currency Italian 10 Lire note, original Army Record of Service form showing service from 30 October 1939 to 8 May 1946, head and shoulders portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform, cloth overseas embroidered service chevrons, one with four red chevrons and another single, together with other original named documentation and several original unit photographs and photographs in action in North Africa.
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Six: Attributed to Trooper J. Perry 5th Royal Tank Regiment India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (7880597 Tpr. J. Perry 1 ACC RTC) re-named; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; War Medal 1939-45, the last five all privately engraved ‘7880597 Tpr. J. Perry 5 RTR’, the first polished, nearly very fine the others very fine Five: Attributed to Sergeant D. T. Tillson, 131/22 Heavy Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 8th Army; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, very fine (11) £70-£90 --- Joseph Perry is confirmed on the Medal roll for the 1st Armoured Car Company, Royal Tank Corps as having received the India General Service Medal with clasp for North West Frontier 1930-31. Sold with Army Council medal issue slip for five medals and one clasp, Royal Tank Regiment white metal cap badge with King’s Crown with two lugs and red leather backing, original distressed National Registration Identity Card named to Joseph Perry of Wrexham, named Royal British Legion membership cards and several named Royal British Legion membership subscription receipts, several press cuttings relating to El Alamein reunion meetings; and several topographic and regimental fancy dress photographs the majority apparently taken in India. Douglas Thomas Tillson was born on 15 November 1918. He enlisted for the Royal Artillery (Militia) at Southend on 15 July 1939 serving in North Africa and Italy, being released in 1946. His Army Books confirm the award of the five medals and 8th Army clasp. Sold with the recipient’s riband bar for the five medals, and a large quantity of original documentation including, two original Army ‘Brown’ Soldiers Service and Pay Books (Army Book 64) one in relic condition, Membership card for the Southend on Sea Royal Artillery Association, original Certificate of Transfer to Army Reserve, dated 9 May 1946, hospital discharge certificate noting his service with 131/32 H.A.A. Regiment, dated March 1944, original 8th Army propaganda notice in Italian, Allied Military currency Italian 10 Lire note, original Army Record of Service form showing service from 30 October 1939 to 8 May 1946, head and shoulders portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform, cloth overseas embroidered service chevrons, one with four red chevrons and another single, together with other original named documentation and several original unit photographs and photographs in action in North Africa.
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