Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
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Lot 4558 Session 14 (4.30pm) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $300
GROUP OF FIVE: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. NX3653 J.A.Parker on first two medals, last three unnamed. The named medals impressed. The third and fifth medals are modern copies, swing mounted, good very fine.
Awarded DCM: LG 12/2/1942, p704, posn 20.
Presented by His Majesty The King at Buckingham Palace, London on 28Jul1942.
Lieutenant John Arthur Parker, born at Coffs Harbour, 10Jul1918; Enl.07Nov1939 at Sydney; captured at Suda Bay, Crete following order to surrender on 01Jan1941; POW, MI9 reports escaped Switzerland - (PAO) (Pat O'Leary escape line) - Pyrenees, May1942 to Barcelona Consulate; DOD 03Oct1944, age 26, while posted to Engineers 1 Base Stores Coy; buried Ipswich General Cemetery, Queensland; recorded on Roll of Honour at Coffs Harbour.
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