Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Lot 2427 SESSION 14 (2.30PM THURSDAY 28TH NOVEMBER) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Estimate $2,000
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PAIR: British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 1410 J.MCC. Currie. S.P.O. R.A.N. Both medals impressed.; also HMAS Sydney - SMS Emden, Nov 9, 1914, Mexican eight reales 1890Mo M.H. Mexico City Mint, medal by W.Kerr, Sydney (C.1914/4), reverse of suspender inscribed, 'J.McC.Currie/Stoker/Petty Officer'. Fine - very fine. (Pair + 1)
Together with pin-back riband for 1914-15 Star; Rising Sun hat badge (KC); Australia metal shoulder title; Female Relative badge WWII, with one star, by Amor, Sydney, reverse numbered A257578; USA uniform buttons in gilt for I.M.M.Co. (International Mercantile Marine Company) (2, large and small); foreign minor coins (5); vintage Nyal Huskeys medical tin; Mexico, eight reales, 1862 GO YF, Guanajuato Mint (KM.377.8); b&w postcards (21, 11 relate to the Emden), all but one French WWI issue unused.
John McCallum Currie, born 27May1877 at Glasgow, Scotland; Enl.15Feb1911 at Port Division of Sydney; Served as Leading Stoker and then Petty Officer Stoker from 28Jan1915; postings included HMAS Cerberus, Parramatta, Sydney 10Jun1914 to 20Sep1917; London Depot, Franklin, Encounter, Penguin; took part in operations in German New Guinea and Sydney - Emden action; Disch.22Jun1919 at own request.
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