The Bill and Angela Strong Medal Collection

Four: attributed to Private L. H. Lerman, Royal Army Service Corps, captured at Tobruk, 21 June 1942

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals, all unnamed as issued, good very fine (4) £60-80

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

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Leonard H. Lerman was born on 22 June 1919. Living at 30 Otto Terrace, Sunderland and a Furniture Salesman by occupation, he enlisted on 15 December 1939. Serving with the R.A.S.C. in North Africa, he was captured with the fall of Tobruk on 21 June 1942. He was initially held in Italy and in September 1943 made an escape attempt from a working camp near Verona. Travelling towards the front line in civilian clothes he was picked up in October by fascist and Italian police and handed over to the Germans. He then spent the remainder of the war in Gemany at Stalag 8B at Lamsdorf, October 1943-January 1944 and Stalag IVc at Brux, January 1944-May 1945. He states in his P.O.W. Questionnaire that he performed ‘sabotage on a small scale, such as breaking & mislaying tools & dodging work by staying in camp etc.’

With two original letters (Prisoner of War Post) from Mrs Ettie Lerman, of 30 Otto Terrace, Sunderland, Co. Durham, to Private Leonard Lerman at Stalag IVc, dated 3 and 10 December 1944; original Register Form for Recovered Allied Prisoners of War; Certificate of Registration to Henrietta (Ettie) Lerman, with photograph; Identity Book to Aaron Lerman ( a Russian by birth); National Identity Card to Grace Jackson and copied P.O.W. Questionnaire and service notes.