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Lot 33
WW2 Medal, Paperwork & Photograph Album Grouping of Clifford Owen Hill 1st Armoured Engineer Squadron Royal Engineers, the medals consist of 1939-45 star, Africa star, Italy star, Defence medal and 1939-45 war medal. Medals are accompanied by the original forwarding slip and the original entitlement claim form. Amongst the many items of paperwork in the grouping is his Soldiers Service book, Soldiers Release book, record of service card, plus various other documents and loose pictures. The photograph album that accompanies the grouping consists of mostly snap shot images taken during the Italian campaign, many images of tanks, armoured vehicles, comrades, local scenes etc. Towards the end of the photograph album are images when he was stationed in Germany as part of the Army of Occupation which shows pictures of them blowing up ship yards and the building of new bridges etc. The album does contain some souvenir images which could be bought at the time. Album contains 155 images in total, most of the images have an annotation below. Souvenir shrapnel and cap badges also accompany the grouping. Clifford Hill originally enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers as a Boy soldier in 1938. At the outbreak of war he was too young to fight so was placed on reserve until old enough to serve overseas. In 1941 he joined the Young Soldier Battalion of the East Surrey regiment before later joining the Royal Engineers from 1942 until demob in 1947.
