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A interesting - and not seen before - superb grouping of personal effacts (paper items and badges) to Lance Corporal Clarke Albert Lancaster, B.Company, 156th Parachute Battalion A interesting - and not seen before - superb grouping of personal effacts (paper items and badges) to Lance Corporal Clarke Albert Lancaster, B.Company, 156th Parachute Battalion A interesting - and not seen before - superb grouping of personal effacts (paper items and badges) to Lance Corporal Clarke Albert Lancaster, B.Company, 156th Parachute Battalion A interesting - and not seen before - superb grouping of personal effacts (paper items and badges) to Lance Corporal Clarke Albert Lancaster, B.Company, 156th Parachute Battalion A interesting - and not seen before - superb grouping of personal effacts (paper items and badges) to Lance Corporal Clarke Albert Lancaster, B.Company, 156th Parachute Battalion

A interesting - and not seen before - superb grouping of personal effacts (paper items and badges) to Lance Corporal Clarke Albert Lancaster, B.Company, 156th Parachute Battalion

This is a very interesting - and not seen before - superb grouping of personal effacts (paper items and badges) to Lance Corporal Clarke Albert Lancaster, B.Company, 156th Parachute Battalion. Clarke Albert Lancaster was born on the 16th July 1917 and came from Bingley in Yorkshire. Before enlisting he worked as a farm labourer. Enlisted into The Green Howards (Yorkshire Regiment) on the26th April 1937. He was serving with the 2nd Battalion in India when he volunteered for Airborne Forces and joined the 151 Parachute Battalion. He did Indian Parachute Course 08, at New Delhi, which commenced on the 26th January 1942. He boarded aircraft 625 to D.Z. (drop zone) ‘Y’ at Ginkel Heath on Monday, 18th September 1944. During the Battle of Arnhem he was wounded and taken POW (22/09/44) and sent to Stalag 11B, Falingbostel, Germany. POW No. 117978. He was at Stalag 11B from the 28th September until the 30th October 1944, and then he was sent to Stalag 8C at Sagan in Poland, where he remained until the 9th February 1945. Along with hundreds of others he was then force marched to the West, until liberated by advancing American Army units. This grouping excists of serveral paper items, one of them is a period made photograph with his girlfriend, and three badges, a Parachute Regiment shoulder title (not the best example, with some moth damage I have seen unfortnatly), his parachute qualification badge and his three overseas service stripes (not on the photo). The paper items are two small news paper cuttings regarding to the Men of Arnhem, two drawings, a map of the POW Camps & designations supplied to next of kin, a Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society Instruction leaflet to next of kin and a Scottish Branch of the British Red Cross Society instructions to ‘Next of Kin’ parcels for Prisoners of War dated December 1944. This interesting set of items is worth a futher research. Difficult to find these days.

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