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Auction: 21003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 409

Three: Private A. L. Lockwood, Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment, taken prisoner at Dunkirk and held in Stalag IX-C

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, Territorial (6345725 Pte. A. L. Lockwood. R.W.K.), contact marks and pitting to second, very fine (3)

Albert L. Lockwood was born in Shoreditch, London on 18 January 1917. He married Ruby M. Best at Dartford in 1939. Landing with the Royal West Kent's, Lockwood was listed as missing at Abbeville on 20 May 1940. It was later discovered that he had been captured and taken to Stalag IX-C at Bad Sulza, Thuringia as a prisoner of war with the number 30502. This camp held a large number of prisoners for the working of the potassium mines south of Mühlhausen, Lockwood was free by 1945; sold together with casualty rolls, personal information on the recipient an extract on the role of the Royal West Kent Regiment as well as copied pictures of the camp.

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Sold for
£180

Starting price
£110