Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Sapper C. A. W. Leary, South African Engineer Corps

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence and War Medals; Africa Service Medal, all officially named (232450 C. A. W. Leary); together with identity disk (C. A. W. Leary Spr. C. of E. 232450V, good very fine (7) £30-40

Clarence Albrecht Walter Leary was born in Claremont, Cape Province, on 12 October 1906. Employed as a Guard with South African Railways, he attested as a volunteer in the Union Defence Force at Cape Town on 28 May 1940. He commenced his full-time service on 21 September 1942 with the R. & H. Brigade and served in Egypt, November 1942; Syria, November 1942-January 1944; Egypt, January 1944-February 1945, and Italy, March-October 1945. He was discharged from the S.A.E.C. on 22 February 1946.