Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Warrant Officer Class II J. Fullick, 2/7th (Southwark) Battalion, The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey), formerly 24th (The Queen’s) Battalion, The London Regiment, who was taken P.O.W. at Abbeville in May 1940

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., Territorial, with 2 Bars (6780199 Sjt., 24-Lond. R.), together with related Territorial Army Rifle Association prize medal, the reverse engraved, ‘Lce. Sergt. J. Fullick’, and two brass Warrant Officer’s rank badges, good very fine or better (6) £250-300

John Fullick, who was born in June 1905, enlisted in the 24th (The Queen’s) Battalion, London Regiment in February 1924. In 1936, having risen to the rank of Sergeant, he was awarded the Efficiency Medal (A.O. No. 154 of August 1936 refers) and, in the following year, when the London Regiment was disbanded, the 24th Battalion was transferred to The Queen’s Royal Regiment (West Surrey) and re-designated the 7th (Southwark) Battalion. On the outbreak of hostilities in September 1939, Fullick joined the strength of the 2/7th (Southwark) Battalion as a Company Sergeant-Major and went with it to France in April 1940, where, in the fighting around Abbeville on 21 May, he was taken P.O.W. Initially incarcerated at Stalag XXIB (1940) near Posen, and then in Stalag XXA at Thorn Podgorz (1941-42), both in Poland, he ended the War in Stalag 383 at Hohen Fels (1943-45), Bavaria, a period that also witnessed him being employed in “working camps” in both Poland and East Prussia. Fullick’s T.A. career from 1936, and wartime service, qualified him for 2 Bars to his Efficiency Medal, both of which were announced in List No. 11 of 1949 (The Lambeth and Southwark Volunteers 1860-1960, by John Tamplin, refers).