Five: 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Australian Service Medal all correctly impressed to VX34115 C. V. SPEERS. Comes with box of issue - EF SOLD

Five: 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Australian Service Medal all correctly impressed to VX34115 C. V. SPEERS. Comes with box of issue

Enlisted 11^th July 1940 and posted to the 2/3^rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment

The unit embarked for the Middle East in December 1940

Sydney Morning herald 18^th June 1941 has Gunner Speers as “Previously reported missing now believed killed”

Records indicate that VX34115 Cyril Speers was at one stage held at an officers camp at Sulmona (Campo PG78)

Discharged 31^st August 1945

Note: The majority of POW’s of the 2/3^rd L. A. A. Rgt were taken during the evacuation of Crete. The approximate figure of Australians in Italian POW camps during the war is 2000 soldiers.

EF SOLD