Militaria

Lot 4434    Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday 20th November)    Militaria

Estimate $15,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $55,000

GALLIPOLI BUGLE, carried by a bugler of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Division at the Gallipoli Landing on 25 April 1915, wounded on that day and later died; the bugle bears a silver shield affixed to the outside of the horn section and it is inscribed, 'To/F.H.SCHAFER. Esq/from/Captn. J.McCarthy. 6th Batt A.I.F./25.3.29/This Bugle/was Carried by a Bugler/of the 2nd Bgde. 1st Divn./at the Gallipoli Landing/When he Became a Casualty/and later/Died of Wounds' and at the base is marked 'SILVER'. With many bumps and bruises from combat, otherwise a very good historic piece from one of Australia's most historic and defining events, the Gallipoli Landing.

According to records held by the Australian War Memorial, their extensive collection of artefacts includes a diary written by the same Capt. Herbert Joseph McCarthy (AWM reference file IDRL/0424). The diary includes notations of his service in Egypt, Ottoman Turkey and Gallipoli. Captain McCarthy was demobbed in 1918.