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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 492

Four: attributed to Corporal E. J. V. Vilday, Shropshire Light Infantry, who was killed in action in North Africa on 5 May 1943

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45 with M.I.D. oak leaf, very fine (4)

M.I.D. London Gazette 23 September 1943.

Ernest John Vernon Vilday was born on 31 March 1914 at Monmouthshire, Wales and enlisted with the Shropshire Light Infantry at Newport for service in the Second World War. Vilday served as a Corporal in the 1st Battalion overseas in North Africa, where he was stationed in Tunisia when he was killed in action on 5 May 1943. He was buried at the Massicault War Cemetery in Tunisia and left behind a widow, Doris Vilday; sold together with copied research.

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