Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria

Lot 202    SESSION 1, eSALE (ONLINE ONLY: BEGINS TO CLOSE FROM 9.30AM M    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $130

AUSTRALIA, WWII, Army date stamping set, comprises a timber and steel office style stamping machine with revolving date and code-letter words, an ink pad and screw-top ink flask, all in a japanned tin case and printed on the top are the details, 'Stamp Army/Sig Dating MKII./D upright arrow D/H.C.Horton'. Very fine.

The only H.C.Horton in WWII Australian Army records is VX18304 Henry Clarence Horton, plasterer, age 35, born at Castlemaine, Vic; Enl.28Mar1940 at Preston, Vic; TOS Recruit Rec Depot 28Mar1940; posted to 2/8Bn 10Apr1940; Emb.14Apr1940; to A/Cpl 23Jan1941; reverts to Pte 16Mar1941; to Greece 31Mar1941; MIA May1941; officially reported POW Stalag X111C 30Oct1941; reported in 2 other Stalags in Jan and Apr1943; recovered POW to England 14May1945; RTA 18Jun1945; two home postings before electing to discharge 23Aug1945; Disch.29Aug1945.
On 10 February 1954 Henry Clarence Horton was sentenced to 18 months' goal. He had a number of disagreements with his wife in the previous year and on Christmas Day, which was her birthday, he went to her house intending to give her money and hopefully reconcile their differences. Unfortunately she told him to go away. The next day he had too much alcohol to drink and set fire to the house without checking to see if his wife or child were inside. The house was owned by the Housing Commission and fortunately it was not burnt to the ground.