General Service 1918-62, 2 clasps, Palestine, Near East, unofficial retaining rod between clasps (6285599. Pte. C. Coade. The Buffs.) suspension re-affixed, pitting and contact marks, nearly very fine £180-£220

Brett Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 1999.

Charles Henry Coade was born in Dover, Kent, on 15 May 1916 and attested for the East Kent Regiment on 15 August 1933, serving with them in pre-War Palestine. Following the outbreak of the Second World War he volunteered for Commando training in the Middle East and was posted to ‘D’ Company, ‘Layforce’. He served with them in North Africa and in the Mediterranean, and was captured and taken Prisoner of War at the fall of Crete on 1 June 1941. He was held at Stalag III-D at Berlin and latterly at Stalag 383 at Hoenfels, and was liberated on 17 April 1945. He saw further service post-War with the Royal Pioneer Corps as a Warrant Officer Class II in the Middle East. He died in Dover on 25 January 1981.

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