Australian Medals

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Single: Military Medal Correctly Impressed to 3327 Pte. Maurice Phillip Deeker. 29 Bn. A.I.F.

Enlisted 21/2/16 - 18 Yrs, Labourer, single, of Burnley, Victoria. Embarked 7th Reinforcements. 29 Battalion from Melbourne on 4/7/16. Returned to Australia 19/2/19.

Military Medal awarded for:

'During the operations at Vauvillers on 9 August, 1918, Pte Deeker was acting as a coy. runner. Under a very heavy artillery & M.G. barrage this soldier, repeatedly carried important messages to the advanced Platoons and Battalion H.Q. At the time when one of Coy's Lewis Gun Teams had all been either killed or wounded, he acted on his own initiative and secured the gun and accessories and carried them forward to the final objective.' London Gazette: Page 31142 of 24.1.19

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 Five: 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, Pacific Star, War Medal (M.I.D.) and Australian Service Medal 1939/45 to an Officer of the 2/43rd Btn. AIF. War Medal and ASM are correctly impressed to SX6994 R. B. Davis. Stars un-named as often found.

MID London Gazette 24-6-1943. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 16-3-1944 "Award for El Alamein"

WIA 10/8/1941 Tobruk.

Promoted to be Lieutenant 3/1/1943.

Comes with large quantity of research. Original train ticket and Battalion Car Badge for the 2/43rd, plus old period plastic coated ribbon bar, pre ASM award.

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 Five: 1939/45 Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal (M.I.D.) and Australian Service Medal 1939/45. All medals Officially impressed to WX27990 T. H. Kenafick. (13 Field Coy. AIF).

MID "For exceptional service in the field in S.W. Pacific area"

London Gazette 6/3/1947. Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 6/3/1947.

Complete with his original pocket watch "To T. Kenafick railway picnic Committee Southern Cross September 28th 1903"

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 Pair: Order of Australia (OAM) civil and Cadet Forces Medal. Both correctly named. OAM named Boyd John Egan and Cadet Medal named B.E. Egan. A letter from from the Christian brother confirms the reason for the diiference in initials as he took the name Eymard when he became a Christian Brother. They went on to say " Br Egan was a very forthright and manly man whose chief interest was people. "His whole life gave meaning to the word 'hospitality', and hospitality was indeed his special care". Br Egan joined the Christian Brothers from Sydney and at one timein the early 1940's was stationed in Perth as a primary school , teaching brother. Brother Egan was very prominent in the Cadet units, especially Aquinas College, Perth. He spent a number of years in New Guinea and retired from teaching in Sydney."

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Trio: British War Medal, Victory Medal and Queen Elizabeth Coronation medal. First two Correctly impressed to 31692 Dvr S. H. Hatton 36 H.A.G. AIF.

Driver Samual Howard Hatton enlisted on the 2nd October, 1916 , and embarked on the 23rd December with the 9/25th F.A.B. He was in action with the 54th Siege Battalion near Nieuport , and also Polygon Woods, Ypres, Menin Woods, and Passehanaele. He was slightly gassed at the latter place, and returned to Australia on the 13th May, 1918. Extract taken from Fighting Sons of the Empire, which also shows a photo of the recipient.

1953 Coronation medal confirmed on roll page 53 making this a unusual combination.

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Five: 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Australian Service Medal. Defence Medal, War Medal and Australian Service Medal all correctly named to VX2446 R.A.K. Fairless (2/2nd Field Ambulance). Stars un-named as often found.

FAIRLESS REGINALD ALLEN KEITH : Service Number - VX2446 : Date of birth - 28 Jun 1908 : Place of birth - WEST MELB VIC : Place of enlistment - MELBOURNE VIC : Next of Kin - FAIRLESS ERNEST

WIA 19/5/1941 Severely wounded Crete and as a result evacuated back to Australia for discharge. Records open to public.

A very nice Crete Casualty group $825
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 Trio: Military Medal, British War Medal and Victory Medal. Military Medal correctly impressed to 7281 L. Cpl W. C. MORTIMER 11/AUST:INF: British War and Victory Medal also correctly impressed to 7281 T-CPL . W. C. MORTIMER 11 BN. A.I.F.

Citation; During the operations at Broodsiende Ridge, East of Ypres, 1st to 9th October, 1917, L/Cpl. Mortimer was in charge of a carrying party attached to the 3rd Australian Machine Gun Coy. Throughout the operations his party carried rations and ammunition, and through his unfailing efforts and high sense of duty, he never failed at any time to get his party through to the front line despite the very bad weather conditions , almost impassible country , and continuous heavy enemy shell fire. Through his great devotion to duty he set a great example to those under him, and encouraged them to carry on.

London Gazette 28.1.18

Multiple Gun Shot wounds 28/6/1918 and invalided to the UK. However he recovers and is not discharged. Comes with a nice group photo of recipient in uniform.

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 Single: Rare Commonwealth of Australia Long Service and Good Conduct Medal Edward VII issue. Correctly chisel engraved to 521 A/Bdr W. Clarke R.A.A. 30.1.09.

Williams claims only 167 issued EF $1450

 

 
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Military Cross (unnamed as issued), 1914/15 Star correctly impressed to 15 W. O. (CL.1) A. R. Blainey 14/Bn AIF, British War Medal (name erased) and Victory Medal correctly impressed to Captain A. R. Blainey AIF.

This is a culturally significant Australian medal group to the first RSM of the 14th Battalion whilst they took Courtneys Post and when Jacka won his Victoria Cross. He later was commissioned and became a Captain, staying with 14th Btn. through France.

His Military Cross Citation reads as follows;

"For Good work and devotion to duty, firstly while the Battalion was in the trenches at Bois Grenier from 5th to 13th July and later at Pozieres from 6th to 13th August and 26th to 30th August 1916.

This Officer controlled the whole of the administrative work during these times, and thus allowed me to have the whole of my time free to deal with the tactical situation. On each occasion before the battalion moved into the Pozieres Line, he personnally reconnoitered the position. His work with this battalion since its formation two years ago, has been exceptional. "

He also won a Commander in Chiefs Congradulatory Card which reads as follows;

This Officer was Adjutant of the Battalion during recent operations near Zonnebeke on 26th September 1917, His work was of the highest order during the actual progress of the operation and in connection with preliminary arrangements. His Energy and devotion to duty at times was highly commendable.

He was wounded In Action (being gassed) 10/2/1918

Unit nickname was "Captain X"

This an outstanding Military Cross group to a very prominant famous 14th Battalion soldier and if it wasnt for its only fault (being the name erased BWM) this group would unquestionably sell for very serious money

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