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 11th July 1940 and posted to the 2/3rd Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment
The unit embarked for the Middle East in December 1940
Sydney Morning herald 18th 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 31st August 1945
Note: The majority of POW’s of the 2/3rd 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