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Lot 3440    SESSION 12 (11.30AM THURSDAY 4TH APRIL)    Documents

Estimate $70
Bid at live.noble.com.au

SOUVENIR MODEL OF THE PANAMA CANAL, c1910s, in cardboard folder cover (when open, approx 23x34cm), in colour with map and profile of the canal, back addressed, 'Mrs J Lewis/Metz/N S W/Australia' and at bottom right corner is signed, 'C.Lewis/2592'; also The Truth About Samoa, Facts Stated by Soldier and Ex-Resident on plantation slave labour in Samoa, 7pp paper issued 1919 by the Government of New Zealand following the occupation of Samoa in WWI. Some paper loss on the spine of the first, otherwise fine, the second with a few rust marks from rusty staples at edge, otherwise extremely fine. (2)

2592 C.Lewis, 5th BGRO Coy (Broad Gauge Railway Operating Company). Clifford Albert Vincent Lewis, railway fireman, age 21, born at Metz via Armidale, NSW enlisted in the AIF at Tenterfield, NSW on 15 December 1917 and embarked on 28 February 1918 from Melbourne, Victoria. He left England to return to Australia on 22 November 1919 and was discharged in Sydney on 11 October 1920 as medically unfit.

With one page listing of Sapper Lewis' record of service.