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Medal, decoration   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Percy Metcalfe
Title
Medal, decoration
Object type Prisoner of war/wars
Classification: 273
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English: Military Medal, George VI awarded to 3529549 Private William Henry Deakin MM, Durham Light Infantry, WW2
Date 22 Nov 1996; 1943; World War 2/wars; [1939-1945]; George VI (1936 - 1952)/House of Windsor/English reign; 08 Apr 2004
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diameter: 36mm
width: 32mm

notes: medal: 56mm x 36mm (h x diam) ribbon width: 32mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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1996.185.3
Place of creation United Kingdom; Catania
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1996.185.3
Notes Military Medal awarded to Private WH Deakin 'For Bravery in the Field'. In 1943, during the invasion of Sicily by 50th (Northumbrian) Division, Pte Deakin crawled down a hill to fetch three dozen grenades, then worked forward under fire to grenade an enemy Spandau near Catania. Corporal William Henry Deakin MM, born in Leigh, UK, served with the Durham Light Infantry (service no 3529549) during WW2, taking part in Dunkirk, the Liberation of Geel (Belgium), and was a POW on crematorium duties at Auschwitz and Helle. After the war he settled in New Zealand and volunteered for service in Korea with K-Force. He died in 1999.
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