Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

Lot 4526    Session 14 (4.30pm)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

Estimate $150
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SOLD $250

SINGLE MEDALS, one to KIA at Gallipoli: Victory Medal 1914-19. 166 Pte. A.B.Browne 17 Bn. A.I.F.; Defence Medal 1939-45. QX2411 O.R.McConnell. Both medals impressed. No ribbons, fine - very fine, two single medals.

Also includes National Emergency Services (New South Wales) Warden badge, scratched on back, 'P Morris'.

166 Alfred Benjamin Browne,MIA and later KIA, Gallipoli 27Aug1915, Court of Enquiry at Fricourt 09Apr1917. A statement of a witness, L/C F.J.McGinty A Coy 17Bn, reads, 'This man was in charge on Friday afternoon, 27th August, on the extreme left towards Suvla Bay, between the N.Z. Headquarters and the 16th Battalion. They charged across from their lines and took the Turkish trenches and held them. Many men fell during the charge. A number of these had bombs in their pockets. The brushwood was fired by shells during the night and masses of charred bodies could be seen through periscopes lying out the next morning. These bodies lay behind the Turkish trenches which the Battalion held right through. The above must be dead. He fell in the charge as described and was never heard of again.'

QX2411 Oliver Raymond McConnell, station hand, age 22, born at Charleville, Qld; Enl.24May1940; Emb.26Dec1914; L/Cpl 20Feb1941; MIA 07Apr1941; POW 30Jun1941, Camp 57 PM3200 Italy and then Stalag VIIIC Germany; Disch.27Jul1945 ex 2/15 Bn.