Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant H. T. Malcolm, South African Engineer Corps, late Transvaal Scottish, in which latter unit he was captured and taken Prisoner of War in East Africa in late 1941

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘31733 H. T. Malcolm’, minor edge bruising, good very fine (5) (5) £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Lieutenant-Colonel Edward De Santis.

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Harold Thomas Malcolm enlisted in the Transvaal Scottish in May 1940 and was embarked for Kenya in the 1st Battalion in July 1940. The unit first saw action against the Italians at Liboi and carried out regular patrols in the period September-October 1940. And Malcolm’s service record reveals that he was taken P.O.W. in the same period, a notation reporting ‘Ex-P.O.W. 16 November 1940’. He was repatriated at the end of the same month and remained in South Africa until embarked for Egypt in December 1943, where he was employed at an Engineer Stores Base Depot. He was discharged soon after his return home in July 1945.