Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Fusilier J. O. Meekins, Northumberland Fusiliers, taken Prisoner of War during the Fall of France in 1940

1939-45 Star; War Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Territorial (4270659 Fus. J. O. Meekins. N.F.) nearly extremely fine (3) £80-120

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Prisoners of War.

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John Owen Meekins was born in Alnwick, Northumberland, on 9 June 1918, and served with the Northumberland Fusiliers during the Second World War with the British Expeditionary Force. He was taken prisoner of war following the fall of France in June 1940, and was held at Stalag IX-C, at Mühlhausen, Hesse. Repatriated at the end of the War, he died in Cambridgeshire in January 2001.