Inventarnummer
202303.37.2
Titel
'The Africa Star' of Lieutenant Edward Timothy Dean
Beschreibung
'The Africa Star'of Edward Timothy Dean from World War Two. A bronze six-pointed star with a circular centre with the GRI/VI monogram, surmounted by a crown and inscribed ‘THE AFRICA STAR’. With a ribbon of pale buff symbolizing the sand of the desert, with a broad red central stripe, a dark blue stripe on the left and a light blue stripe on the right symbolizing the three services. Beneath in a white box is printed 'Lieutenant Edward Timothy Dean P/111871 Royal Engineers'. One of five medals in a black wooden frame with black backing. The second from the left of the five medals which include the 1939-1945 Star, the Burma Star, the Defence Medal, and the War Medal 1939-1945.
Datum
1939 - 1945
Entstehungszeitraum
World War Two
Material
Format
- Height: Ribbon 72 mm
- Width: Ribbon 32 mm
- Height: Medal 56 mm
- Width: Medal 39 mm
- Height: Frame 222 mm
- Width: Frame 254 mm
- Depth: Frame 23 mm