A Legion of Merit group of three attributed to Technician Fourth Grade R. H. Stollmack, 46th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company

Legion of Merit, Legionnaire’s breast badge, gilt and enamel, with full wrap brooch, unnamed, unnumbered, with riband and lapel bars, in case of issue; Army Good Conduct Medal, with slot brooch, with riband and lapel bars in damaged card box of issue; European African Middle Eastern Campaign Medal, with crimp brooch, with riband bar in card box of issue; with a lighter inscribed, ‘Africa 1943’, ‘Sicily 1943’ and ‘Ralph H. Stollmack 12097528’, medals nearly extremely fine (lot) £90-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of American Medals.

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Legion of Merit citation: ‘Ralph H. Stollmack, 12091528, Technician Fourth Grade, 46th Quartermaster Graves Registration Company, for services in Sicily from 1 August 1943 to 16 May 1944. Entered service from New York, New York.’

With recipient’s original Soldier’s Individual Pay Record booklet; Immunization Register; and notebook/diary - with details dating from his departure from Casablanca on 11 March 1943 and arrival in Sicily on 13 July 1943 - he records seeing Bob Hope and Francis Langford at newly captured Palermo. With original copy of the document bearing medal citations and a photograph of the recipient in uniform outside an entrance of Tottenham Court Road Station. With Combat Infantry Badge, enamelled; ‘U.S.’ and Quartermaster Corps branch badges; and an enamelled lapel badge.