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Lot 857
Historically and Regimentally Important WW2 Service Dress Tunic Attributed to Colonel Leslie Reginald Hulls Military Cross & Bar, Gordon Highlanders, The Only British Soldiers To Escape From Being Prisoner of War in Both First and Second World Wars, khaki doublet service dress tunic with officers Gordon Highlanders regimental tunic buttons, red gorget collar patches, rank insignia to the shoulders, above the breast pocket is medal ribbons of Military Cross with rosette, 1914 star, British 1914-18 war medal, Allied Victory medal with MID oak leaf, 1939-45 star and three foreign orders. Tailors label to the inside of the collar with inked name. Tunic shows some service wear and medal ribbons have frayed. First enlisted in the 14th London Regiment in 1914 before being promoted to Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders and then later into the Machine Gun Corps. He also had a short commission in the Royal Naval Vounteer Reserve as a Sub Lieutenant with the Armoured Car Squadrons in North Russia. He was captured by the Turkish forces and escaped at Djongy, then being imprisoned by the Georgians at Tiflis. Became the British Military Liaison officer to the Georgian government at Tiflis. At the outbreak of WW2, he was called up and served as an Intelligence officer with 153rd Brigade, 51st Highland Division. He was again captured in May 1940 St Valery-en-Caux, France but escaped from captivity along with Commander Elkins Royal Navy, they sailed from Lion-sur-Mere on 23rd/24th June 1940. He served as Liaison officer, No30 and No26 British Military Missions in Russia (July 1941-April1943). He was Military Assistant to General Anders, Commander in Chief of the Polish Army in the East (April – August 1943), Civil Affairs Staff School, Cairo (September 1943-early 1944); as Director, Italian Refugee Branch, Allied Control Commission (1944-45); as Director of North German Oil Control and subsequently Oil Branch, Control Commission, British and US zones of Germany, 1945-49.
