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Five: 1914/15 Star, British War, Victory Medal, War Medal 1939/45 and ASM 1939/45. WW1 trio correctly impressed to 3243 PTE. J. H. BAMBURY 3/BN AIF. War Medal 1939/45 and ASM 39/45 correctly impressed N76029 J. H. BAMBURY. (Minor error with his second initial being “M” on Star, all other information being correct)

EMB: 2^ND November 1915

Transferred to 53^rd Battalion 16th February 1916

Transferred to 5^th Pioneer Battalion 3^rd March 1916

RTA: 10^th July 1916 (operation Hernia)

Note: During the Second World War Joseph Henry Bambury served from July 1940 until February 1942 with the Australian Army Service Corps. 

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 1623 PTE. J. A. WILLIAMS 5/BN AIF.

EMB: 19th Feb 1915

Admitted Field Amb. Gallipoli 28th July 1915 "sick"

WIA: 14th June 1918 wounds listed as "Face and back"

RTA: 6th November 1918 reason given "G. S. W. Left arm amputation"

Note: Records further explain that Private James Alexander Williams had "Multiple gunshot wounds" which led to his left arm being amputated.

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Trio: 1914/15 star, British War and Victory Medal all correctly impressed to 1431 A-L-SGT. (PTE on Star) R. P. CHARMAN 13/BN AIF.

EMB: 10^th Feb 1915 (3^rd reinforcements 13BN)

Transferred to the Anzac Railway Corps 25^th May 1916

Accidental injury 29^th Jan 1917 deafness (Train accident, Boulogne)

Promoted Lance Sergeant 16^th Oct 1917

RTA: 21^st April 1918

Note: Records report that Rupert Charman died in 1939. Also appears as number "1531" on records.

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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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Pair: British war medal and Victory medal impressed to 3131 PTE T. W. LOCKETT 18 BN AIF

Previous service listed as "12 months militia"

Emb: 20^th December 1915

Transferred to the 3rd Bn AIF 14^th February 1916

WIA: 18^th August 1916 "Shell shock"

RTA: 11^th May 1919

Note: Comes with Thomas Luckett's issue medal box, Dog tag and returned from active service badge

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Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal impressed to 4566 PTE A. L. WOLSTENHOLME 18 BN AIF

Emb. 9 April 1916

WIA 30 May 1918 gassed.

RTA 13 November 1919

Comes with copies of letters from Pte Wolstenholmes widow and family still applying for a widows pension in 1975. The letters state that his cause of death was mustard gassing in 1936. One letter states that he was a Military Medal winner, although there appears to be no mention of this in his records.

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Memorial Plaque: Correct one piece cast named to SAMUEL FENTON ROSE.

 629 Corporal Samuel Fenton Rose embarked on the 25^th June 1915 with the 18th Battalion AIF “B” Coy

 KIA 4th August 1916 Villers – Bretonneux

Note: Corporal Rose next of kin is noted as Cape town, Cape Colony South Africa

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PAIR: British War and Victory Medal, both correctly impressed to 1327 L-CPL D. McCLURE 32 BN AIF.

EMB: 18^th November 1915

WIA: 21^st July 1916 (GSW Back & Hand) classed as dangerously ill at one point and sent home when he eventually became stable.

RTA: 17^th March 1917 and subsequently discharged due to his wounds.

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PAIR: British War and Victory Medal, both correctly impressed to 1117 PTE H. JONES 43/BN AIF.

EMB: 9^th Jun 1916

W.I.A: G.S.W (face) 5^th Dec 1917

RTA: 12^th Jun 1919

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Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal impressed to 855 Cpl. S. C. Avery 43 Bn.AIF

emb. 9 June 1916 RTA 12 Dec. (due to wounds).

WIA 18 April 1918 GSW arm

WIA 25 Aug.1918 GSW shoulder

Made L.Cpl in bombing platoon

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Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal impressed to 213 PTE A. WRIGHT 43 BN AIF

Emb. 9th June 1916

Transferred 16th February to 3rd DIV. SAL. COY.

RTA 9th May 1919

Comes with issue boxes and badges as pictured.

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East Kent Rifles Other Ranks Shako Badge c1861-1870. A fine and very rare example in die-stamped blackened metal being a crowned oval strap ‘East Kent Rifles’, in the centre the White Horse/Invicta, complete with two loop fasteners, the fasteners slightly crushed otherwise very fine condition.

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The 2nd Middlesex Militia Other Ranks Victorian Period Helmet Plate, good quality items in die stamped white metal, with central Garter motto and central ‘2/Mm’, lacking one loop fastener otherwise very good condition 

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The South Wales 4th Volunteer Battalion Other Ranks Edwardian Period Helmet Plate, good quality die stamped white metal with applied centre and title details, complete with original fasteners, very good condition

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The Welsh Regiment 1^st Volunteer Battalions Other Ranks Victorian Period Helmet Plate, good quality die stamped white metal example of standard pattern crowned star and laurel, back plate with circular centre Prince of Wales’s crest and regimental motto plus unit title, with original lug fasteners, with reaffixed crown (clean repair) otherwise good condition

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84^th York & Lancaster Regiment

Victorian officers shako plate. 1869-1881

Faultless condition

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PAIR: British War and Victory Medal, both correctly impressed to 6581 MT-DVR P. SPENCE 7 F. AMB. A.I.F.

Previous Service: 4^th Volunteer Black Watch

EMB: 7^th December 1915

WIA: 6^th August 1916 “S. Wd. Upper Arm Right”

Transferred to 2^nd Motor Transport Coy 1918

RTA: 9^th August 1919

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Group of six, with Death plaque : QSA  four clasps " CC, Rhodesia, OFS,T" KSA two clasps "SA01, SA02" correct running script Lieut. F. St. J. Barton 2/Hampshire RGT. with duplicate issue correctly impressed 123 CORP. F. ST. BARTON. VICTORIAN. M. R.,1914 -15 STAR, BRITISH WAR MEDAL (MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES) & VICTORY MEDAL impressed to CAPT. F. ST. J. BARTON HAMPS. R.

Death Plaque correctly named "Frederick ST. John Barton.

M.I.D. London Gazette 6 April 1916, for services in the Euphrates operations, 24 June to 26 July 1915.

Frederick St John Barton was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, on 6 May 1876, 4th son of Robert Barton, Malvern, Victoria, formerly Deputy Master of Melbourne Branch, Royal Mint. He was educated at Toorak College, near Melbourne, and volunteered and enlisted in the 5th Victoria Contingent during the South African War. He was then transferred as Sergeant to the Rhodesian Artillery, and afterwards gazetted 2nd Lieutenant into the 2nd Hampshire Regiment on 19 May 1900, at the recommendation of the Governor of Victoria. He was promoted to Lieutenant in March 1902 and to Captain in January 1907. He took part in the operations in Rhodesia, May 1900, and in the Transvaal and west of Pretoria in May to June 1901; and in the Orange River Colony, July to October 1901 (Queen’s Medal with 4 clasps; King’s Medal with two clasps). He served as Adjutant to the 1st Battalion from March 1909 to March 1912, and to the 4th Territorial Battalion from November 1912. He went to India with his battalion in October 1914, after the outbreak of the European War, and from there to Mesopotamia in March 1915, and was killed in action at the battle of Nasiriya, 24 July 1915.

Sold with an Army Post Card home to his wife ‘I am quite well’, signed ‘Fred 4/5/15’, two news cuttings and a copied portrait photograph, together with other research.

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Trio: 1914/15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal.1914/15 Star and Victory Medal impressed to 846 PTE D. Campbell 12 L. H. RGT AIF

Emb. 25 June 1915

Transferred to the 7th Light Horse 2 October 1915 (Gallipoli)

On the 21st of October 1915 Trooper Campbell was evacuated off the peninsula to the "Somali" hospital ship with enteric fever which eventually led to his discharge on the 28th of November 1916

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Photo of Private Whyms courtesy of Ancestry.com

Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal impressed to 31851 GNR. E. J. V. WHYMS 4 D. A. C. AIF

Emb. 2nd December 1916

To Field Ambulance 21st November 1917

Transferred to A. A. M. C. 1st November 1918 (1st A. War Hospital)

RTA 18th July 1919

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MAJOR LEWIS ONE OF THREE 2/6^TH TO SURVIVE BORNEO & SANDAKAN

Four: 1939/45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal and Australian Service Medal all correctly named to WX3338 T. T. Lewis

Major Travers Thorold (Peter) Lewis, an architect from Cottesloe, WA, enlisted on 1 May 1940 having previously served in the Militia in the RAE from 1935.

On the outbreak of war he was appointed as a Captain in the 2/2nd Field Company, then on the 14^th November he was given command of the 2/6th Field Park Coy,

He embarked on to Malaya in Jun 1941, and the unit was based in Malacca in support of the two Field Engineer Company’s 8th Division located with the 27th Bde, Segamat sector.

He was promoted to Major on 24^th December and after the 2/30th Battalion ambush at Gemas on 14^th January 1942, 27th Bde conducted a fighting withdrawal to Singapore. The 2/6th Fd Park Coy suffered casualties from Japanese artillery and air attacks, before withdrawing to Singapore on the 9^th February. A further six men of the 2/6th were killed prior to the 8th Division surrendering to the Japanese and the survivors imprisoned in Changi.

Whilst in the Changi camp he played a role in designing the Chapel before being shipped to Borneo on the Ume Maru with ‘B’ Force in July, arriving in Sandakan.

Major Lewis was tasked with building an airfield at Sandakan. The design and construction of the runway was sabotaged and deliberately delayed by the prisoners. The Kempeitai suspected him of being involved in intelligence activities and he was sent to Kuching and jailed for the remainder of the war.

When finally recovered he was suffering malnutrition and temporary blindness and was hospitalized before returning to Australia via Morotai. He was discharged in January 1946, one of 145 WA POW transported to Borneo, and one of seven to have survived. He was one of only three of the 2/6th Fd Park Coy to survive Borneo, with the remainder dying at Sandakan 1 and 2 camps, or on death marches. He returned to architecture post war, and died in Cottesloe, WA on 6 Apr 1955

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Four: 1939/45 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal and Australian Service Medal. All medals correctly named to VX147459 G. W. JACOBS

Sapper Glen William Jacob signed up on the 15^th of October 1943 with the WW2 nominal roll interestingly shows the following as his location on enlistment

The roll shows that he discharged as part of the 4^th Aust Dock’s Opp Coy on the 30^th of October 1945.  At the time of listing these medals, Glen William Jacob’s service records were still sealed and as a result no further information is available about his Pacific service until his file is opened.

Note: With the curious comment stating enlistment in New Guinea, this group has great potential for a fascinating story with further research.

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Six: 1939/45 Star, Africa Star, Pacific Star, Defence Medal, War Medal and Australian Service Medal all correctly named to NX16377 R. G. FLANNERY

Richard Gerard Flannery enlisted 22^ND May 1940 into the Australian Army at Paddington, residing at Woollahra, NSW

Injury prior to embarkation in Bathurst whilst on leave described as “wantonly attacked by an unknown civilian, frac nose”

Embarked 14^th November 1940 for the Middle East with the 2/6^th Field Regiment

15^th November 1941 records show promotion to A/Sgt with a clear line marked through

RTA on the 23^rd March 1942

13^th June 1942 Gnr Flannery was charged with negligently drove an army vehicle. This charge was over turned by his commanding officer.

Embarked for the Pacific 6^th September 1942

“At approx. 0930 on 28.2.43 at the position of C Tp, 12^th Fd Bty, 2/6 Fd Regt, south of Gona. The pistol was a regulation U.S. Army pattern and was in the possession of NX65742 Gnr Pinnington D. M. at the time of the accident. Two shots were fired from the pistol.” Resulting in Gun Shot Wounds to Gnr Flannery’s right flank and liver.

Returned to Australia and subsequently discharged on the 12^TH January 1944 as Medically unfit

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