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CAMPAIGN GROUPS AND PAIRS 482 Six: Lieutenant-Colonel L. E. Thorpe, Royal Corps of Signals - captured at Singapore - a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese


INDIAGENERAL SERVICE 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (Lieut., R. Sigs.); 1939-45 STAR; PACIFIC STAR;DEFENCE AND WARMEDALS; CORONATION 1953, these unnamed; together with a mounted set of six miniature dress medals and a riband bar, full-size medals nearly extremely fine (12)


£260-300


Leofric Egerton Thorpe was born on 1 June 1914. He was educated at Bigshotte School and Wrekin College. He enlisted into the Royal Corps of Signals at Catterick in February 1934. As a 2nd Lieutenant, his first posting was to 5 Div. Signal Regiment based at Scarborough. In September 1936 he was posted to Karachi and in 1939 he was posted to Singapore. He was promoted to Lieutenant in 1937 (London Gazette 2 February 1937) and Captain in 1942 (London Gazette 3 February 1942). As a Major, he was captured with the fall of Singapore on 15 February 1942. He was interned in Changi for six months before being sent to work on the infamous Siam- Burma railway. Despite the disease and privations he survived until the Japanese surrender in May 1945. One thing that may have helped him was a growing interest in the theatre - he put on numerous plays to entertain his fellow captives. After the war, during his rehabilitation, he and a few friends put together a small theatre company, at which time he met his wife to be. In 1954 he attained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel (London Gazette 26 October 1954) and commanded 3 GHQ Signal Regiment based partly in Egypt and partly in Cyprus. Lieutenant-Colonel Thorpe retired in 1958 (London Gazette 3 June 1958) and joined De Haviland Propellers who were developing the Blue Streak missile. With its cancellation three years later, he joined GCHQ where he served for fourteen years. He died in 2004


With copied gazette extracts; Japanese P.O.W. record card; I.G.S. and Coronation Medal roll extracts and other research. 483 Eight: Havildar Padam Bahadur Sahi, 9th Gurkha Rifles


INDIA, GENERAL SERVICE, 1 clasp, Jammu and Kashmir 1947-48 (5830898 Hav., 9 G.R.); INDIA INDEPENDENCE MEDAL (5830898 Hav., 9 G.R.); INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1936-39, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1936-37, North West Frontier 1937-39 (5830898 Rfm., 9 G.R.)1939-45 STAR; AFRICA STAR; ITALY STAR; DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, these all officially named (5830898 Hav., 9 G.R.) heavily gilded and plated, mounted court style for wear, good very fine (8)


£80-100 484 Four: Lieutenant P. A. A. Leir, Royal Hampshire Regiment


INDIA GENERAL SERVICE 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (2-Lieut. P. A. A. Leir. Hamps. R.); DEFENCE ANDWAR MEDALS;GENERAL SERVICE 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine 1945-48 (Lt. P. A. A. Leir. R. Hamps.) official correction to rank, good very fine (4)


£200-260 485 Eight: Chief Petty Officer Cook W. J. Crook, Royal Navy


1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR, clasp, France and Germany; AFRICA STAR, clasp, North Africa 1942-43; BURMA STAR, clasp, Pacific; ITALY STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, these unnamed; ROYALNAVY L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue (MX.48379 C.P.O. Ck., H.M.S. Bermuda) mounted as worn, good very fine (8)


£100-140 486 Eight: Signalman H. Wilkinson, Royal Signals, late Royal Navy


1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; BURMA STAR;DEFENCE ANDWARMEDALS, these unnamed; NAVALGENERAL SERVICE 1915-62, 1 clasp, S. E. Asia 1945-46 (C/JX.282374 Tel. R.N.); KOREA 1950-53, 2nd issue (22220277 Sigmn. R. Sigs.); U.N. KOREA 1950-54, unnamed, good very fine (8)


£300-360 487 Six: Lieutenant A. H. Hale, Royal Naval Reserve


1939-45 STAR; ATLANTIC STAR; AFRICA STAR; PACIFIC STAR, clasp, Burma; WAR MEDAL 1939-45, M.I.D. oak leaf, these unnamed; CADET FORCESMEDAL, E.II. R., 2nd issue (Ty. Lt. (S.C.C.) A. H. Hale, R.N.R.) mounted as worn, good very fine (6)


£180-220


Alan Herbert Hale was born in Devizes, Wiltshire on 30 July 1922. He joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Seaman in August 1937. With the outbreak of the Second World War he was drafted to H.Q. Western approaches at Liverpool for duty as a Gunnery Rating in Armed Merchant Ships from October 1939. During the period 1939-1943 he was heavily involved with Arctic and Atlantic convoys, including the ill-fated ‘P.Q.17’, where he was mentioned in despatches for services on S.S. Manchester Exporter. During May-November 1943 he was involved with convoys in the Mediterranean. In December 1943 he was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy as a Petty Officer Gunnery Instructor, serving as such at Vancouver until March 1944. From March 1944 he was posted to convoy duties from the west coast of Canada and U.S.A., in the Pacific and Indian Oceans.


In February 1945 he was commissioned a Sub-Lieutenant in the R.N.V.R. and remained in the Pacific theatre of war until the end of hostilities and beyond, helping in the repatriation of Prisoners-of-War. Returning to the U.K. in late 1945 he was discharged from military service in May 1946. In June 1946 he joined H. M.S. President, London Division of the R.N.V.R. and was promoted to Lieutenant, R.N.V.R. by the end of March 1947.


He transferred to the Sea Cadet Corps as Instructor Officer in July 1965 where he remained until his retirement in 1983, being based at the Cadet Training Ship Nelson, Riverside Foundry Bridge, Norwich. Lieutenant Hale died in Norwich in March 1991.


With copied service details and two copied photographs of the recipient. www.dnw.co.uk


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