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3 duplicate names on the roll.

Forename/initials: Paul Stefanus. Served: Middelburg.

Forename/initials: Paul Stephanus. Served: Middelburg.

Forename/initials: Paul Stefanus. Served: Middelburg.

From the next City Coins auction, November 2020

ABO (Burger P.S. Grobler)

Three Burghers named Paul Stephanus Grobler of the Middelburg Commando were captured in the above action: aged 52, 29 and 15 as per PoW Register and all three of them later applied for ABO medals.

The medal on offer is the one with file reference 431/11758 and was issued in 1942 with a WWII type suspender and small WWII type naming.

The other 2 medals were issued in 1922 with WWI type naming and suspender.