Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Lot 4332    SESSION 13 (2.30pm Thurs 29 July)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $220

GROUP OF FOUR: 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. N249593 J.W.Richardson. All medals impressed. Mounted on small display board with photo, very fine - extremely fine.

James West Richardson, age 29, chemist and chiropodist, born Sydney; Enl.23Sep1941 at Cootamundra, NSW; served in medical units in New Guinea; also served ANGAU (Australian and New Guinea Administrative Unit); Disch.02Nov1945 as WO2, ANGAU. Together with a variety of certificates for schooling, medical training and an Australia Remembers certificate; Royal Life Saving Society Bronze Medallion, inscribed 'J.Richardson / 5.4.28.' AMF Certificate of Discharge; copies of service record and photo in uniform. Sister: Nursing Sister Ida Constance Richardson; three portfolios of training qualifications from Cootamundra District Hospital (1939), Royal Hospital for Women at Paddington (1940), NSW Department of Public Health (1963); enamelled badges for Cootamundra District Hospital, General, Royal Hospital For Women Paddington, New South Wales College of Nursing, Royal Society for Welfare of Mothers & Babies (WMB), all excpet the third named to Ida Richardson; photo in nursing uniform and wearing Royal Society (WMB) badge at neck. With research.