WW2 British Durham Light Infantry Medal group comprising of:...

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£120

WW2 British Durham Light Infantry Medal group comprising of: 1939 - 45 Star, Africa Star, Italy Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and G.V.I. Territorial Efficiency Medal, correctly impressed - 4455393. Pte. D. Kelly. D.L.I.

British War Medal, correctly impressed 1223 Pte. G. Swinbank. North'd Fus


Condition GVF

Sold by direct order of the family.

The group comes with three postcard photographs of the recipient, a DLI cap badge, DLI cap badge on a mount, an entitlement slip, a Red Cross letter informing his family of his capture and various letters home from the POW camp.

David Kelly was born on the 5th of January 1909 in Spennymoor, Durham. In civilian life, Kelly was a bricklayer by trade and a pre-war territorial. He married Dinah Ellenor Swinbank on the 1st of July, 1933, and the couple settled in Spennymoor, living at 16 Tees Crescent.

In the early stages of the Second World War, Kelly was serving in C. Coy of the 10th Bn, being based at Edgar Hall, Bishop Auckland, in November 1939.

He was captured on the 3rd of October 1943 during the Battle of Kos, being 1 of only 60 DLI men to survive.

He spent the rest of the war in captivity in Stalag IV-D.

Sold with his father-in-law's WW1 British War Medal, who served in the Tyneside Irish and was wounded in July 1916. It is highly likely he was wounded on the 1st Day of the Somme.