Hammer

£1,300

WW1 / WW2 Emotive Belgiun Resistance Family Group of Medals Dachau Prisoner. This emotive group records the sacrifice and service of the Joassin family of Herstal Belgium.
The medal group of Pierre Joassin a Belgian agent working for the British during WW1 and continued the resistance against the Nazi’s arrested and deported to Dachau concentration camp as a political prisoner in February 1945.
Comprising: Liege Medal 1914, War Medal, Victory Medal, Medal of Armed Resistance, War Commemoration Medal, British War Medal, P. JOASSIN. Medals loose. This group is accompanied by original Dachau uniform cloth inverted red triangle with printed “B” indicating a Belgian Political Prisoner. ... White cloth uniform strip with stencilled number 141282 (prisoner number confirmed). ... Lapel badge gilt & enamel blue and white strips with triangle and B with initials CNPPA-NCPGR ... Similar badge red enamel triangle with B and Dachau above.

Items believed attributed to Michel Pierre Joassin son of Pierre who also served with the resistance and was arrested and killed in 1943.
Medal of Armed Resistance ... 1946 dated letter sent as a reply to an equerry from Pierre as to the circumstances and location of his sons death. The address is given as Herstal.

Medal Group believed to be the brother of Pierre Joassin.
1914, War Medal, Victory Medal, British War Medal “M. JOASSIN”. Medals loose.

The groups are accompanied by a small number of lapel badges, etc including a small bronze none portable award embossed “LUC-MARC 1940 1945”.
Both brothers single entitlement of the British War Medal are confirmed and shown as Belgian Agents. Pierre Joassin was born in 1896, presumably living at Herstal which was the home of the Belgium arms factory Fabrique Nationale. The town was over run by the Germans on the 7th August 1914, ten houses were destroyed and 27 civilians killed. Little is at present known to the work Pierre and his brother undertook for the British during the war. Surviving Pierre continued to live in the town and in 1923 his son Michel-Pierre was born. Pierre’s services against the Germans would once again be needed with the declaration of war once more against German, the arms factory would once more be a wanted price by the Nazi’s. Pierre is confirmed as working for the resistance with his son, however on the 23rd March Pierre was arrested and his son was arrested three days later and killed. Imprisoned by the Nazi’s he was eventually deported to Dachau Concentration Camp arriving on the 16th February 1945 categorised as a Political Prisoner, his prison number confirmed as “141282”. Surviving he was liberated and returned home to Rue Large Voie 83 Herstal to start the search for his son.