Description
Wounded in action on 12 June 1953
Following the intense the Third Battle of the Hook, the 1st Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s Regiment were relieved by the 1st Battalion, Royal Fusiliers. In the period before they were relieved by the 1st Battalion, Kings Regiment they suffered continual heavy mortar and artillery fire, and it was in this phase that that Gunner A. Blakey of 61st Light Regiment was wounded while providing close mortar support; sold together with an extract from The Times listing those wounded
