WWII GROUP OF 5 MEDALS & EPHEMERA TO PTE. P.S. STOWER, LOYAL R. (JAPANESE P.O.W.)
General Service Medal with Palestine clasp to 3855143 Pte. P.S. Stower, Loyal R.; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; WWII Defence Medal; WWII War Medal, accompanied by Regular Army Certificate of Service; Soldier's Service & Pay Book and Record of Service, Far East P.O.W. Social Club badge and Loyal Regiment lapel badge with some missing enamel.
Description
Percy Sidney Stower was born in West Ham on 14 Mar 1915 and enlisted on 6 Feb 1934 with the Loyal Regiment and was posted to Palestine on 12 Dec 1935, serving there until 11 Oct 1936. Arriving in Singapore on 29 Mar 1938, Stower became a Japanese Prisoner of War on 15 Feb 1942, liberated and repatriated home on 21 Oct 1945, discharged as no longer physically fit on 30 May 1946.