A group of WWI/WWII medals to C H L Greenhill, 13th County o...

Hammer

£600

A group of WWI/WWII medals to C H L Greenhill, 13th County of London Battalion (Kensington), comprising: 1914 star with bar (2147 Pte C H L Greenhill 1/13 Lond R), BWM and Victory (Cpl), 1939-45 Star, War Medal and Territorial Efficiency medal, Geo VI (Sgt Greenhill), mounted on a bar as worn, together with matching set of miniatures; and a quantity of paperwork, photographs, etc, much of it relating to the fact that he was a prisoner of war in both WWI and WWII, the WWII photos mostly with the stamp of "Stalag XXIA", many post card size of the camp concert party and one of him standing beside the WWI grave of Maj Cedric Charles Dickens, one of the photos together with a German phrase book, bearing the stamp of "Stalag 344", the other paperwork includes programmes for shows put on by the concert party (fragmentary), his army discharge certificate dated February 1919, his WWII reservist call up papers dated August 1939, Soldiers Pay book, pre WWII passport, private letters, copies of "The Kensington", the journal of 13 London Regt, from Vol 1 No 1 (June 1937) to Vol 18 No 3 (Sept 1959) and odd copies up to 2010, several note book diaries, a typed account of his time as a Prisoner of War, a 1915 dated slide rule in its leather case, a telescope by Dolland, London (a bit cloudy) in its leather case, etc, all contained in a large suit case, the lid marked in large letters "C.H. GREENHILL. P.O.W. 6974" (worn). A fascinating lot worthy of careful research. £350-400