Day 1 of Three-day Sale
Lot 163:
Group of three medals to a Dunkirk POW, Signalman E Goodwin R Signals, consisting of: 1939-45 Star, War Medal 1939-45 and Territorial Efficiency Medal (GVIR 1st type), the last named to 2586665 Sigmn E Goodwin R Signals. Goodwin was serving with the Royal Artillery as part the British Expeditionary Force in France in 1940 when he has taken prisoner by the Germans during the withdrawal of the BEF to Dunkirk. He was posted as missing in casualty list 292/280 dated 4 June 1940 and later posted as a POW on 14 August 1940. He was allocated the POW
number 2416 and was held in POW camp Stalag VIII-B Lamsdorf, in Poland. Together with some thousands of other allied POWs, he took part in the infamous
‘March of Death’ in January 1945, when the Germans attempted to prevent the liberation of allied POWs by the advancing Red Army by force-marching the prisoners to the West in extreme weather conditions. Many died of exhaustion and exposure before the survivors were finally liberated, some by Soviet troops and others, the lucky ones, by US forces. Extremely Fine. With copy of POW record and historical note on Stalag VIIIB Lamsdorf.
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