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Medal, campaign   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Percy Metcalfe; Edward Carter Preston
Title
Medal, campaign
Object type Prisoner of war/wars
Classification: 278
Description
English: War Medal 1939-1945, awarded to 3529549 Private William Henry Deakin, Durham Light Infantry, WW2
Date Post 1945; 08 Apr 2004; 1939-1945; World War 2-wars; 22 Nov 1996
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diameter: 36mm
width: 32mm
notes: medal

notes: ribbon
institution QS:P195,Q758657
Accession number
1996.185.9
Place of creation Europe
Exhibition history Display: 9A
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, 1996.185.9
Notes 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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