WWII Jewish woman's medals group

[Igor Ostapenko]

P/1649 Pte (?) K. Beer

[Igor Ostapenko]

Postal medal boxes with Tel-Aviv address to

BERLINER ( BEER ) KLARIS

[Igor Ostapenko]

[Igor Ostapenko]

Missing bar "8th Army" to Africa Star

Edited May 24, 2006 by Igor Ostapenko

[Igor Ostapenko]

Allied Commission, Austria !

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Somebody can help me with information about this woman ?

[Kev in Deva]

Hallo

would the written piece be: P/1649 Dvr (Driver) Beer ???

Kevin in Deva

[FireMedals]

Igor,

The two formation patches are for the British 8th Army.

Firemedals

[Igor Ostapenko]

Hallo

would the written piece be: P/1649 Dvr (Driver) Beer ???

Kevin in Deva

Driver ?

Thank you !

[Kev in Deva]

Driver ?

Thank you !

Hallo Igor,

A lot of women were used to drive the staff-cars of senior officers of the Army, Navy, and Royal Air-force, not only back in the United Kingdom but in the rear areas that had been freed from Enemy occupation and well behind the front lines, and I believe some even accompanied the officers into other countries as the Allies closed in on Germany.

I stand open to correction.

Kevin in Deva.

[Ed_Haynes]

Yes, it would be driver. And this could be anything from driving VIPs to driving supply trucks. Not sure on the significance ot the "P" prefix to the service number, though I have a partial list somewhere.

I assume the medals themselves are unnamed? A shame the British decided to issue these unnamed, unlike other commonwealth governments (e.g., India, South Africa, Australia). Despite what some have written, this was not an economy measure, but came out of a desire to issue the medals with little delay.

Interesting group that helps date when medals were awarded. Medals couldn't be sent to an Israel that didn't exist, so these are post-1948. This parallels patterns I have seen in researhing WWII medals in India, most of which seem to have been isued in the early 1950s but, then, India was striking them themselves.

[Guest Rick Research]

Would this have been the Palestine volunteers Pioneer Corps?

[Igor Ostapenko]

"P" in the number - from Palestine

[Michael Johnson]

Here's the information!

And here's an example of a casualty: Dvr. M. Cohen

"PAL" could easily be abbreviated further to "P"

Edited May 25, 2006 by Michael Johnson