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Auction: 25001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 95

Seven: Lieutenant J. Platos, Press and Culture Office, Polish Armed Forces

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Merit Cross, without swords; Monte Cassino Cross' numbered '48258'; Poland, Republic, Order of Polonia Restituta, gilt and enamel, Soviet produced 1944 type, mounted as worn, in that order, in a wooden display case with a number of badges, sold together with an original I.D. card, the last slightly chipped, overall very fine (7)

Jan Platos is recorded as an Unattached 2nd Lieutenant in Poland in 1939, escaping to Palestine after the Fall of Poland he appears on an I.D. card issued to the then Polish Brigade as a Lieutenant. Serving with then in Iraq and through Africa he is confirmed on the role of the Monte Cassino Cross, earning the badge number 48258. This relates to a unit named the Press and Culture Office, Non-Divisional Units. He appears to have remained in the British Military after the war, earning a Cross of Merit from the Government in Exile however his Polonia Restituta is a Communist issued type suggesting a Liaison role between the two countries; sold together with an original I.D. card named to the recipient, three table medals, four unit badges, one on silver and one enamelled as well as a letter providing research on the recipient and copied research.

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Estimate
£200 to £300

Starting price
£160