Five: Sergeant M. H. J Herriott, Hampshire Regiment, who was taken P.O.W. in France in May 1940

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (5496412 Pte. M. H. J. Herriott, Hamps. R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5496412 Pte. M. Herriott, Hamps. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5496412 Pte. M. H. Herriott, Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45, together with a loose ‘Malaya’ clasp, contact marks and occasional edge bruising, generally very fine and a scarce pre-war combination of awards (5) £350-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection.

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Mons Herbert Julius Herriott was born in Fareham, Hampshire in July 1914 and enlisted in the Hampshire Regiment in September 1932. Subsequently embarked for India, he witnessed active service in the 1st Battalion on the North West Frontier in September-November 1935 and in December 1936-January 1937, and again in Palestine in the period October 1938 to March 1939. Having then returned to the U.K., Herriott served in the 2nd Battalion in the B.E.F. out in France from September 1939 until taken P.O.W. on 24 May 1940. Liberated in April 1945, he was demobilised in March 1946, but rejoined his old regiment and the Regular Army in November 1952. Having then qualified for the ‘Malaya’ clasp for services in the Military Police Support Unit (M.P.S.C.), he was finally discharged as a Sergeant in May 1961. Herriott died in April 1970; sold with hand written service details.