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Accession Number | REL31003.006 |
Collection type | Heraldry |
Object type | Medal |
Physical description | Cupronickel |
Maker |
Unknown |
Place made | Australia: Queensland |
Date made | 1985 |
Conflict |
British Commonwealth Occupation Force, 1946-1952 (Japan) |
Unofficial British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Medal : Leading Signalman R Thompson, Royal Navy
Unofficial British Commonwealth Occupation Forces Medal, commissioned by the BCOF Association of Queensland. Impressed around edge with recipient's details.
Associated with the service of D/JA 245595 Leading Signaller Robert ‘Bob’ Thompson, Royal Navy, who enlisted on 3 January 1941 and saw service with the North Russia and Trafalgar convoys; in the Normandy Campaign; and manned Landing Craft LC H187 during the British Commando/Royal Marine assault on Walcheren Island (a German-held fortified island, near the mouth of the Scheldt River which protected the approaches to Antwerp) on 1-8 November 1944. After the war ended, Thompson served with the British Commonwealth Occupation Forces (BCOF) in Japan in 1946 with the shore establishment, HMS Commonwealth. He later emigrated to Australia.