Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

Lot 3874    Session 15 (7.30pm Thursday)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

Estimate $5,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $4,000

MM FOR GALLIPOLI: Military Medal, (GVR type 1). 2327 Dvr: H.L.Arthur. 103/How:By:Aust:A. Impressed. Good very fine.

Only 241 MMs for Gallipoli.

MM: LG 27/10/1916, p10486, posn 10; CAG 19/4/1917, p918, posn 68.

Recommendation: At Anzac on the night of 12th May, 1915 (he) was in charge of a fatigue party constructing a gun pit in the open, under fire for two hours. He volunteered for this work and after being relieved still continued to assist by carrying sand bags across the open, during which operation five men were wounded. When Major Villiers-Stewart was seriously wounded Arthur conveyed him to a place of safety and returned for this officer's sketching instruments. He was knocked down by the blast of a shell while on the latter errand.

Herbert Leslie Arthur, labourer, age 23, born at Broken Hill, NSW; Enl.21Sep1914 at Pontville, Tasmania; Emb.20Oct1914; service at Gallipoli and in France; WIA 11Jun1916, GSW arm, France; awarded MM 27Oct1916; RTA 09Dec1918 for Anzac Leave; Disch.23Mar1919.

With research.