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Africa Star

The Africa Star was awarded for service in any operational area in North-Africa between June 10th 1940 (the day of Italy's entry into the war) and May 12th 1943 (the end of hostilities in North-Africa) or the Mediterranean. The badge is a six-pointed star with the Royal Cipher GRI-VI in the centre surmounted by a crown above the inscription: The Africa Star. The ribbon is 1.25" wide and coloured pale buff with a vertical broad scarlet stripe and a narrow stripe of dark blue to the left and one of light blue to the right of the central stripe; the buff representing the desert, the other colors the three armed services.
Bars were awarded to personnel of 8Th Army, 1st Army and for service in North-Africa 1942-1943; the emblems were the digit 8 for 8th Army from October 23rd 1942 to December 5th 1943 and the digit 1 for 1st Army from November 8th to December 31st 1942 or from January 1st to December 5th 1943. A silver rosette was worn by personnel of HQ 18th AG who were not eligible for the first two bars.

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Palliser, Arthur Francis Eric* July 20th, 1890
† February 22nd, 1956

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Pankhurst, Leonard Thomas* August 26th, 1902
† December 1st, 1996

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Parkin, William Henry† March 28th, 1941
Plot: 3 Row: B Grave: 6

Pascoe, Frank Cyril* June 20th, 1915
† May 10th, 1996

Patilla, Colin Seaton* April 22nd, 1919
† December 10th, 1983

Patton, George* June 3rd, 1914
† January 12th, 1999

Peacock, Clarence "Lofty"* November 18th, 1910
† April 8th, 1958

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Peacock, Reginald John* 1918
† February 5th, 1943
Plot: 10 Row: B Grave: 5

Peters, Frederick Thornton* September 17th, 1889
† November 13th, 1942
Row: 3 Grave: 61

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Phillips, Edward* December 19th, 1889
† May 14th, 1973

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Pinder, Harold Senhouse* April 21st, 1889
† December 20th, 1974

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Pine-Coffin, Richard Geoffrey "Wooden Box"* December 2nd, 1908
† February 28th, 1974

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Pirog, Jan* October 21st, 1919
† August 30th, 2009

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Place, Basil Charles Godfrey* July 19th, 1921
† December 27th, 1994

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Platel, Francis Vittery* 1909
† November 23rd, 1944
Plot: 7 Row: F Grave: 18

Pniak, Karol* January 26th, 1910
† November 10th, 1980

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Poole, Alfred Raymond† February 4th, 1989

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Potgieter, Thomas Ignatius* April 14th, 1917
† June 3rd, 2006

Powell, John Leonard† April 16th, 1945
Plot: 5 Row: B Grave: 1-5

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Price, Thomas McBride* November 14th, 1914

Prince, William* October 1st, 1923

Pritchard, Charles Hilary Vaughan* October 29th, 1905
† March 28th, 1976

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Pujji, Mohinder Singh* August 14th, 1918
† September 18th, 2010

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