Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Lot 4005 Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $320
GROUP OF SEVEN: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45; Greek Commemorative War Medal 1940-41 (bronze Army issue). QX7019 H.B.Defries on first six medals, last medal unnamed as issued. All medals impressed. Mounted court style for display purposes but no suspension pin, extremely fine - uncirculated.
Sapper Henry Benjamin Defries, born Brixton, England, 16 May 1912, shearing machine expert; Enl.01Apr1940 at Kelvin Grove, Qld; 28May1940 to RAE Depot, Sydney; Emb.30Aug1940 with 2/1st Field Coy Engrs for Middle East; served on ops in North Africa then to Greece on 19Mar1941 for ops against Germans; Jun1941 withdrawn from Crete under heavy fire; 14Jun1941 to 2/3rd Railway Construction Coy in Palestine and Syria; RTA 27Jan1943; Emb.29Jan1945 for ops in New Guinea; 22Jun1945 to 4 Field Coy Engrs; RTA 15Sep1945; Disch.23Oct1945. With research and original named papers issued with medals.
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