A G.S.M. ‘Palestine’ and WW2 ‘P.O.W.’ Escaper’s Group of 4 awarded to Sergeant William Herbert Price, Military Provost Staff Corps, late 1st Battalion, Border Regiment, who was slightly wounded and taken prisoner of war at Tournai in May 1940 and subsequently held at Stalag VIII-B at Lamsdorf, Germany, comprising: General Service Medal, 1918-62, single clasp, Palestine (3653478. Pte. W. H. Price. Bord. R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal, 1939-45; Army Long Service and Good Conduct, E.II.R., Regular Army type, (3653478 Sgt. W. H. Price. M.P.S.C.); Group swing mounted on card for display, toned good very fine (4) Sergeant William Herbert Price was born on 15 June 1919 at Lowton, near Warrington, Lancashire, and he enlisted for service with the 1st Battalion Border Recimeng on 3 December 1936. Serving in Palestine, and then during WW2, he was slightly wounded and taken as a prisoner of war at Tournai, Belgium, on 21 May 1940. Interrogated and then sent into captivity at Stalag 20-B, and then to Stalag 20-H (Torun, Poland), he and two other men (Cpl. W. B. Mann (?) and Pte Kennal) managed to escape the P.O.W. camp and attempted to cut the nearby railway’s signal wires, but they were later recaptured by German Police, spending further time in captivity at Stalag VIII-B at Lamsdorf until he was liberated in January 1945. He later served in the M.P.S.C. and received his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal.Ex Baldwin’s, The Military Sale, 6 November, 2013

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