A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment

A Second War D.C.M. awarded to I. H. J. Stocks, Hampshire Regiment, who was taken prisoner of war in the Middle East

Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.VI.R. (5495986 Pte., Hamps. R.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1935 (5495986 Pte., Hamps. R.); India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5495986 Pte., Hamps. R.); General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (5495986 Pte., Hamps. R.); 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War Medal 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with his father’s 1914 Star and bar trio (9629 Pte/Sjt. J. Stocks, 2/Welsh R.) some contact wear and edge bruising, otherwise generally nearly very fine and better (10) £2000-2500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Hampshire Regiment.

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D.C.M. London Gazette 14 February 1946 ‘... in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in the field.’

Ivor Henry James Stocks was taken prisoner of war in the Middle East and was held in Stalag IVF, Hartmansdorf Chemnitz camp.

As is not unusual with many awards to ex prisoners of war there is no surviving recommendation for the award of Stocks’ D.C.M., which was likely made for gallantry in the Middle East during the action in which he was captured or possibly subsequently as a prisoner of war.