Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Corporal F. Hezzell, York and Lancaster Regiment, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War in Norway on 28 April 1940

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Palestine (4744364 Pte. F. Hezzell. Y. & L.R.); 1939-45 Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (4744364 Cpl. F. Hezzell. Y. & L.) mounted as worn, good very fine (6) £200-£240

Frederick Hezzell was born in Frampton, Lincolnshire, on 5 June 1910 and attested for the York and Lancaster Regiment on 5 December 1930. He served in pre-War Palestine and then with the Regiment during the Second World War in Iceland and Norway. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War in Norway on 28 April 1940. Held at Stalag IX-C at Dorndorf Rohn, where he was detailed to a forced-labour Arbeitskommando for carpentry and cobbling, his M.I.9 Questionnaire states: ‘Any other matters: Yes. Clothes and boots sent to me by the British Red Cross was taken from me by the German Military and I was given wooden boots and old French clothes to wear. For the first two years I was badly handled (kicked around etc.) for the whole period the food was poor and insufficient.’

Repatriated in 1945, Hezzell was advanced Corporal and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 28 June 1950. He died in 1979.

Note: Both the France and Germany Star and the Defence Medal are unconfirmed, but the group appears mounted as worn by the recipient. Hezzell possibly qualified fro the Defence Medal through his service in Iceland, prior to embarkation with the British Expeditionary Force to Norway, and he may have qualified for the France and Germany Star by being posted on attachment for liaison duties with the Allied liberating armies in April and May 1945.

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