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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 2780 PTE. (SGT on BWM & VM) J. R. NEILSON 11/BN AIF.

Previous service stated as “five years Bendigo Cadets”

Promoted corporal 11^th August 1915 11bn & then again promoted Sergeant 11^th September 1915

EMB: 5th October 1915 reverts back to rank

Promoted Cpl 18^th April 1916

Transferred to 24^th How. Bde. In the 112^th Bty 16^th June 1916

Granted 12 months leave agricultural purposes to America 31^st July 1919 “The purpose of instruction in agriculture and pig raising methods”

RTA 15^th September 1920 from Vancouver to Perth Western Australia (address stated as Salvado St Cottesloe Beach)

Note: Records show John Roy Neilson medals were returned to sender and then sent back to him

VF $775

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 282 BDR (PTE on Star) E. W. RYDER 31/BN AIF.

EMB: 9^th Nov 1915 "C" Coy

Transferred to 113^th How Battery (13^th F.A.D) 15^th March 1916.

Discharged: 1^st M.D 3^rd March 1919

GOOD VF $775

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 2848 PTE. J. WATERMAN 20/BN AIF.

EMB: 2^nd November 1915

WIA: 27^th July 1916 (remained on duty) France

Admitted to hospital November 1916 sickness severe

Transferred to 5^th Machine Gun Coy 24^th November 1917

RTA: 20^th May 1919

Good VF $775

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 2856 PTE. J. YOUNG 28/BN AIF.

EMB: 2^nd November 1915

Transferred to 51^st BN 3^rd March 1916 (now 2856A) 

RTA: 31^st May 1919

Note: John Young was a jockey from Kalgoorlie. Copy of discharge shows G.S.W. left arm.

 VF $875

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3062 PTE F. G. NEDWICH 15/BN AIF.

EMB: 5^th Oct 1915

Transferred to 47^thBN 3^rd March 1916

Transferred to 4^th Field Butchery 16^th March 1916

Taken on strength 49^th BN 29^th July 1918

Discharged: 24^th July 1919

Note: Comes with original discharge certificate and photo.

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3146 DVR. J. F. DAVIS 1/F.A. BDE AIF.

Previous Military service stated as “Rifle Club Tumbarumba”

EMB: 21^st November 1914

Admitted hospital Mena 4^th April 1915 “Sick”

Transferred to 1^st Battery 11^th July 1915 Gallipoli Peninsula

RTA: Invalided on the 3^rd September 1915 “for discharge in Australia”

Discharged: 27^th December 1915 2^nd Military District

Note: Due to Driver Davis’s early discharge he becomes a member of the initial RSL club the “Returned Servicemen’s Association” (RSA) of New South Wales of which his rare original badge numbered 548 is included. Also included is a Political Labor League (NSW) 1915 silver jubilee badge/fob and a 1937 Coronation medallion both belonging to him.

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3274 PTE. T. M. COLE 8/BN AIF.

EMB: 11^th Oct 1915

WIA: 18^th April 1917 (concussion, head) France

RTA: 27^th Sept 1917

Discharged: 3^rd M.D (medically unfit) 26^th Dec 1917

GOOD VF $995

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3280 PTE. E. R. BRIMSON 11/BN AIF.

EMB: 2nd November 1915 and posted to “C” Coy

27^th March sprained ankle

KIA: 9th April 1917 During the German counter attack at Louverval (Where Pope won his VC)

Cemetery details: Morchies Australian Cemetery, Morchies, Arras, Nord Pas de Calais, France NOK West Leederville

Note: Records show Ernest Richard Brimson’s British war medal was returned to sender and sent out again

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3432 SPR. C. W. KING 6 F. C. E. AIF.

EMB: 23^rd November 1915 after enlisting in Geraldton Western Australia

WIA: 4^th May 1916 (G. S. W. Rt. Arm) France. Due to poor admin there appears to conflicting dates so we can only go off the earliest dated entry. At some stage after his arm needs to be amputated due to this injury.

RTA: 3^rd July 1917 and subsequently discharged in Western Australia as "medically unfit" due to amputation 

VF $785

POPE’s VC ACTION

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3444 PTE W. PIERCE 11/BN AIF (L-CPL ON PAIR).

POPE’s VC  “On 15 April 1917 at Louverval, France, during the Battle of Lagnicourt,  he was in command of a very important picquet post, with orders to hold it at all costs amidst a heavy German attack. The enemy, in greatly superior numbers, attacked and surrounded the post and ammunition was running short. Pope, in a desperate bid to save the position, was "seen to charge with his men into a superior enemy force, by which they were overpowered", although heavy losses were inflicted. He had "obeyed the order to hold out to the last" and his lifeless body, along with those of most of his men, was found amongst 80 enemy dead.

The 11th Battalion, despite suffering over 245 casualties, was subsequently able to hold their sector of the line. For his actions Pope was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross”

Volume IV, page 373 of Charles Bean’s Official history states the following in regards to Private Pierce in the action;

“Another man, Private W. Pierce (of Perth, W. Aust.), who volunteered to bring ammunition, managed to return with it to his post, though wounded.”

 “MISSING IN ACTION” 16^TH April 1917.

“Wounded and captured Cambrai” later confirmed on German list dated 30^th July 1917

Prisoner of War – Interned Hilfs Lazarett Hohenzollern Park Magdeburg “Extract Post-Card from man dated 4.7.17”

Red Cross file records a postcard from Cpl Pierce now interned at Alten Grabow 1^st December 1917 stating the following;

“My parcels come very good. I could not wish for better. If I want anything I will let you know. I am keeping the best of health.”

Repatriated Prisoner of War 19^th December 1918

RTA: 19^th April 1919

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PTE BROWN 51 BN KILLED IN ACTION BELGUIM

PHOTO CORTESY OF AWM WEBSITE

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3731 PTE. E. H. BROWN 11BN AIF

Private Edward Huxley Brown, a blacksmith’s striker from Westonia, WA, enlisted on 18 Sep 1915.

On joining the 11th Battalion in Egypt in December it was not long before Private Brown was transferred to the newly raised 51^st Battalion becoming an original member of ‘C’ Company in Mar 1916.

Renown as a champion boxer, it is no surprise being a fighter that he became a machine gunner and took part in the 51st attacks at Mouquet Farm and Noreuil.

On the 10^th June 1917, as a volunteer stretcher-bearer and having just completed his duties he returned to the front-line trench at Messines. Suddenly a German shell landed in his dug-out and both he and another soldier were instantly killed. He is recorded as being buried, but unfortunately his body never recovered post war,

Private Brown is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres, Belgium. †

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Trio: 1914/15 Star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 3922 PTE. G. M. PESCOD 11/BN AIF.

George Marshall Pescod aged 43 enlisted on the 27^th August 1915 in the 11^th Bn A.I.F.

Taken on strength with the 12^th Reinforcements 11 Battalion he proceeded overseas to Alexandria.

After service in the Middle East, George proceeded with Charlie Company 11^th Battalion to France disembarking on the 5^th April 1916.

Wounded in action “Gun Shot Wound Abdomen (penetrating)” France 20^th August 1916

Sadly, he succumbed to his wounds and died three days later at the 3^rd Casualty Clearing Station on the 23^rd August 1916.

George is buried Plot 2. Row F. Grave 10. Puchevillers Cemetery, France

The medals come in their boxes of issue along with the outer postal packaging addressed to Mrs R. B. Pescod (wife). Hillcroft, Sheriff Hill, Gateshead on Tyne. Also with the group are two beautiful sweetheart badges made from a single collar rising sun badge and an “Australia” shoulder title on each.

EF+ $1125

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 569 PTE A. WILSON 10/BN AIF.

EMB: 20^th October 1914

Concussion drum of left ear 20th October 1916?

RTA: 13^th February 1917

Note: There seems to be very little written on Private Wilsons service in 1915. He certainly embarked in 1914 (Gallipoli?). Unfortunately his service record is only 9 pages long.

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Trio: 1914/15 Star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 6184 PTE. H. A. MCKENZIE 4 FD AMB. AIF.

Herbert Arthur MacKenzie was born at Adelaide in 1895 and was a tailors cutter upon his enlistment on 14 June 1915. He had a note from his mother and father giving their consent for his enlistment. He had served for two years in the A.G.A. Langs Bay Volunteers and a further four in the 10th Australian Imperial Volunteers.

Embarked at Adelaide aboard the Benalla on 27 October 1915, he joined his unit at Alexandria on 4 December and was taken on the strength five days later.

Mackenzie sailed for France in June 1916 serving until his discharge on the 10^th August 1919. He had applied for his Medals in May 1919 

Good, Very fine $625

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 706 PTE. W. H. TOMS 27/BN AIF. (SGT on BWM & VM)

EMB: 31^st May 1915

Taken ill 1^st November 1915 after escorting prisoner from the front

Promoted Sergeant 19^th August 1916

KIA: 5^th November Villers-Bretonneux

Note: Served on Galliipoli and then in France where he was reported missing on the 5^th November 1916 near Flers in the attack on The Maze. Later confirmed as killed in action.

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 706 PTE. W. H. TOMS 27/BN AIF. (SGT on BWM & VM)

EMB: 31^st May 1915

Taken ill 1^st November 1915 after escorting prisoner from the front

Promoted Sergeant 19^th August 1916

KIA: 5^th November Villers-Bretonneux

Note: Served on Galliipoli and then in France where he was reported missing on the 5^th November 1916 near Flers in the attack on The Maze. Later confirmed as killed in action.

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 744 PTE W. J. REDMOND 30/BN AIF.

EMB: 9^th Nov 1915 "C" Coy

William John Redmond was diagnosed with Rheumatism and was in and out of hospital.

RTA: 1^st July 1916

Discharged: 2^nd M.D (medically unfit) 3^rd Jan 1917

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 7619 DVR. J. S. McNAMARA 5 F.A.B. AIF.

Previous service stated as “five years Militia”

EMB: 18th November 1915

Transferred to 15^th Battery 11^th November 1916

RTA: 27th April 1919

VF $675

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 769 DVR (PTE on star). C. A. HANDLEY 4/BN AIF.

EMB: 20th Oct 1914

Joined Battalion on Gallipoli 14th June 1915

Left Gallipoli on the 7th August 1915 "sick"

21st September 1917 appointed driver

Hospital France (influenza) 21st Dec 1916

RTA: 24th September 1918

Note: Private Cecil Albyn Handley appears to have WW2 home service as N70284 with the rank WO2

VF $975

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 927 PTE P. A. ROBERTS 29/BN AIF.

Previous service Commonwealth Senior Cadets

EMB: 10^th Nov 1915

Transferred to the 5th Pioneers Bn 3rd  March 1916

RTA: 9th March 1919

Note: Comes with two original ribbon bars

Medals returned to sender 1923 and re sent in 1926

 VF $845

Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 979 PTE. P. F. DOWNER 14/BN AIF.

EMB: 22ND December 1914

Admitted 4th Field Amb. Gallipoli 8th May 1915 "Diarrhoea"

Left Gallipoli for Alexandria 30th June 1915

RTA: 9th September 1915 reason given "Chronic Bronchritis"

Discharged 15th February 1916

Note: Private Percy Field Downer would have been with the battalion in the landing at Gallipoli and during the heavy fighting (April-May) of which the 14th Battalion became famous for. It is possible that he may be associated with Albert Jacka's feat that won him and Australia our very first Victoria Cross for WW1. Further research required.

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 982 PTE. S. C. SMITH 25/BN AIF.

EMB: 29th June 1915 (25th Bn A. Coy)

Taken on strength with 5 Field Company Engineers and remustered as Sapper number 4568 to re-joined unit at ANZAC (Gallipoli) on the 5th October 1915

Transferred as Driver to the F.A.B in 1916 finally ending up with the 17^th Field Artillery Battery for service in France until 1919

RTA: 8^th February 1919

VF $775

Trio: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal impressed to 411 PTE. A. J. MIELL. R. FUS.

Comes with regimental cap badge.

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Family grouping. Father and Son.

Trio: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal impressed to 87841 DVR. J. FRENCH R.A.

Trio: Queens Korea Medal, United Nation Korea medal and CSM clasp "NORTHERN IRELAND". Queens Korea Medal impressed to 22274310 SPR. E. J. FRENCH R.E. UN Korea is unnamed as issued with the CSM impressed 22274310 SGT. E. J. FRENCH QUEENS.

Unusual grouping which includes Korea and Northern Ireland.

Comes with regimental cap badges.

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