A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA RELATING TO PIERRE JOSEPH CLAREBOUT...

A COLLECTION OF EPHEMERA RELATING TO PIERRE JOSEPH CLAREBOUTS, 1ST BELGIAN ARMOURED DIVISION OF THE PIRON BRIGADE. A collection including his dog tag and a set of miniatures comprising the 1939-45 star, the France and Germany Star, Defence and General Service medals, Belgian Croix de Guerre, Belgian War Combatant Volunteer Medal with 'Pugnator' clasp, Belgian 1940-45 Commemorative War Medal, and the Normandy Campaign Medal. Clarebouts was a war refugee to Britain, with his original refugee card dated 12th July 1940 and alien registration card dated 22nd July included. He was conscripted on the 28th November 1940 and summoned to Tenby Camp in Pembrokeshire, from which he joined the Piron Brigade as part of the 1st Armoured Car Division and saw service in France and Belgium. To also contain various ephemera relating to Clarebouts' service including photographs, official correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings, a copy of Dwight D. Eisenhower's Oder of the Day speech in preperation for D-Day etc, an embroidered and framed peace flag etc. (qty).

Estimate:£60

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