Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Gunner W. Exley, Royal Artillery, who was captured and taken Prisoner of War at the Fall of Hong Kong on 25 December 1941

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (828121 Gnr. W. Exley. R.A.) nearly extremely fine (4) £160-£200

William Exley was born in Enniskillen, Ireland, on 29 May 1906, and enlisted in the Royal Artillery on 31 October 1924. He was serving as Gunner with the 8th Coast Regiment when captured by the Imperial Japanese Army at the Fall of Hong Kong on 25 December 1941. Repatriated on 9 September 1945, he remained in the service in the British Army and was later discharged on 6 March 1952; his discharge records further note that he sometime served under the alias ‘J. J. Gilligan’.

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