Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Sale 140    25–28 Nov 2025   Michael Crouch Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 1393    SESSION 8 (11.30AM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au

GROUP OF FOUR TO WIA: British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19; British War Medal 1914-18; Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18. 4365 Pte. E.F.Bowden 17 Bn. A.I.F. on first two medals, 4204 Bowden. Australia. on third medal, 4204. Bowden. E.F Austra(li)a on last medal. Naming impressed but some irregularities in naming. Swing mounted, some damage to ribbons and contact marks and hairlines on all medals, otherwise fine - very fine.

Edwin Francis Bowden, steward, age 32, born at Guernsey, Channel Islands; Enl.03Jan1916 in 11Rfts for 17Bn at Agricultural Showgrounds, Sydney, NSW with previous non-continuous service; Emb.09Apr1916; to hospital at Abbassia with VD 19Aug1916; to 17Bn 21Sep1916; to Reading War Hospital with dysentery 15Jan1917; to France 20Jun1917 and rejoined 17Bn 16Jul1917; blown up by a shell on 25Sep1917 on Menin Rd, Flanders; to hospital in England 10Oct1917; RTA 08Nov1918 SW head; Disch.10Apr1919 ; Mercantile Marine war service records not sighted; died 4Feb1977 at Collaroy, NSW.

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