Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria
Lot 3693 Session 15 (7.30pm Thursday) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria
Estimate $300
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $360
AUSTRALIA, WWI, tribute fob, in gold (15ct, 8.82g, 23x43mm), obverse, saluting soldier at top, rifle at each side and in front of Rising Sun, below 'Duty Bravely Done', above a shield with enamelled colours of 38Bn, around a wreath and at the base a boomerang bearing the word 'Returned', reverse inscribed, 'Presented to/Lce Cpl Radnell/38th Batt/by the/Kurting District/On his safe return/from the War.' Very fine.
Ex B.J.Hibbard Collection.
Herbert William Radnell, farm labourer, 25, born at Kurting, Vic; Enl.14Mar1916 at Bendigo, Vic; Emb.20Jun1916; WIA 09Jun1917 GSW right groin, 29Mar1918 GSW back and left side, severe, France; RTA 12Jun1919; Disch.27Jul1919.
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