A rare pre-WW2 Palestine casualty General Service Medal 1918-1962, GVIR 1st type bust, 1 clasp: Palestine awarded to Guardsman G. Brown, Irish Guards who was killed in action by a landmine on 17th August 1938 at Silet-Ed-Dahr when their Army lorry struck a landmine on the road between Nablus and Jenin during the Arab Revolt.
General Service Medal 1918-1962, GVIR 1st type bust, 1 Clasp: Palestine; (2718326 GDSMN. G. BROWN. I. GDS.
Condition: Good Very Fine
Awarded to Guardsman (No. 2781326) G. Brown, Irish Guards who saw service in Palestine during the Arab Revolt and who was killed in action on17th August 1938 at Silet-Ed-Dahr. The Yorkshire Post of Friday 19th August 1938 reporting:
‘Hundreds of British troops, using police dogs and co-operating with aircraft were engaged in extensive searches which began at dawn today.
Attention was concentrated particularly around Athlit, where a Jewish inspector’s entire family were kidnapped yesterday and Nablus where brigands stole four rifles and 1,000 rounds of ammunition from the police station and robbed a bank.
Numerous arrests are reported to have been made.
The laying of land mines by Arab bandits and indiscriminate kidnapping of law abiding Arabs and Jews are the latest developments in Palestine’s ‘furtive rebellion’ which enters its 29th month tomorrow
Further counter measures are being taken following the high casualties for the past month which include two British soldiers. Guardsman George Brown and Guardsman William Mitchell of the Irish Guards, who were killed yesterday when an Army lorry struck a land mine between Nablus and Jenin.
It is understood the authorities are contemplating the sternest steps in the outlying districts of Jerusalem where large gangs operate after nightfall, entering villages and robbing the peasantry on behalf of the ‘Arab Army’ and imposing their own collective fines.
Meanwhile, bomb outrages continue. Six persons were injured, three of them seriously when a bomb was thrown this morning at a Jewish bus carrying employees of an electricity company according to a report from Haifa. Two land-mines found on the main Jericho-Jerusalem road this morning were removed just before a potash company convoy passed along the road.
An eight-year-old Jewish boy was dangerously injured and his brother aged 12, also seriously hurt in a bomb explosion in the boundary quarter of Jaffa and Tel Aviv tonight. One other boy was slightly injured.’
