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Officers, Crete Prisoner of War group – Royal Army Pay Corps, late Royal Field Artillery.
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army, 1025454 S.Sjt. R. J. McCullough. R.A.P.C. ( mounted court-style for display)
Robert James McCullough was born in Armagh on 31 March 1899.
He attested for the Royal Artillery at Dublin 3 March 1919, and was posted to No. 5 Reserve Brigade, Royal Field Artillery as Gunner 16 March 1919.
Transferred to the Royal Army Pay Corps 12 March 1920, he served as Lance Sergeant at Cologne in 1923 and Staff Sergeant in Egypt in 1935. Awarded the L.S. & G.C. Medal under Army Order 224 of October 1937, he was sent to Palestine on 26 July 1940 and was appointed to an Emergency Commission as Lieutenant 17 February 1941.
Posted to Greece and Crete, he was captured by the Germans on 5 June 1941 and sent to P.O.W. camps at Lubeck, Warburg and Rottenburg; repatriated 18 April 1945, he spent 6 months at Millbank Military Hospital before returning to duties at the R.P.O. London on 4 December 1945.
Condition – NEF
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