Lot 702
A DORSET REGT W W 11 'REICHSWALD' CASUALTY GROUP (4)
A 1939/45-France & Germany, Defence & War Medal group, to a Pte in the 4th Battalion the Dorsetshire Regt. . During the last days of Germany's armies to hold the Reichswald Forest. Condolence Slip named to Pte E Luffman KIA 15th February 1945.
Aged 29 years , 500968 Pte Edwin Charles Luffman. There is an Italy Star with the medals, though the slip states only four.
The son of Edwin Charles Frederick and Blodwin Luffman, husband of Mrs Dora May Luffman of Bournemouth Hampshire. Later remarried and became Mrs D Sleeman, 639 Charminster Rd, Bournemouth, Hants. (BOI addressed thus when sent.)
Killed during the advance and hard fighting in the Reichswald Forest advance.
With the original slip sent from the Records Office, Exeter, to Mrs Luffman stating Killed in Action Western Europe 15 February 1945. Also a photograph of his grave.
