- The late newspaper baron, who died in 1991, was given a stash of awards for war
- He was given the Military Cross from Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in 1945
- But, almost 30 years after his death, a collector is set to get Β£8,000 out of stash
By James Gant | 26 August 2021 | Link to article
Bravery medals awards toΒ disgraced media tycoon Robert Maxwell for his wartime service are going up for sale.
The late newspaper baron, who died in 1991, was given a stash of awards for his heroics during the Second World War - including a Military Cross.
He was handed the coveted title personally by legendaryΒ by Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery in 1945.
But, almost 30 years after his death, a private collector is set to make around Β£8,000 out of the haul.
Christopher Mellor-Hill, head of client liaison at Dix Noonan Webb auctioneers, said: 'We have been entrusted with the sale of Robert Maxwell's Military Cross for bravery in World War Two and his other awards.
'He was one of the most complex and colourful characters who became one of the most powerful press barons in the 1980s.
'Given an almost state-like funeral in Israel after his mysterious death at sea off his luxury yacht, he was soon infamous for being found to have looted the Daily Mirror's pension fund leading to the collapse of his business empire.'
Decades before the fraudster stole millions of pounds from the pension fund of Mirror Group Newspapers and then drowned in mysterious circumstances, Maxwell was a decorated war hero with a tragic past.
Born in Czechoslovakia to Jewish parents, his mother, father and four siblings were killed in the Holocaust.
He survived by fleeing to France to join the Czech army in exile before being evacuated to England where he joined the British Army.
Then a sergeant, Maxwell took part in the Normandy invasion and fought across Europe towards Germany.
In April 1945 he was awarded the Military Cross for storming a German machine-gun post that had been pinning down British soldiers on the Holland/German border.
He was decorated personally by Field Marshal Montgomery just 24 hours after learning his mother and sister had been killed by the Nazis.
Maxwell, whose daughter Ghislaine Maxwell is currently in jail in the US awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, became a press baron after the war.
He died after suffering a hear
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I remember there was a guy here who said that he works in healthcare and was able to get a third shot of vaccine. I wonder if it is a guy from this article?
https://www.medpagetoday.com/special-reports/exclusives/92698
> A month after his second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, Robert Montgomery, MD, found his antibody response lacking.
> The surgeon and director of the NYU Langone Transplant Institute in New York City is himself a heart transplant recipient -- placing him among the immunocompromised and making him keenly aware that being fully vaccinated didn't necessarily mean he'd be immune to COVID-19.
> So Montgomery stepped into uncharted territory when he took a third vaccine dose, crossing over to the Johnson & Johnson shot.
Anyway, even if heβs not here, whoβs here got Moderna, then got bupkis for antibodies, and may be got a third vaccine shot?
