Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles
Lot 4598 Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles
Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $700
MILITARY MEDAL, (GVR type 1). 7543 Gnr: G.A. Cruickshank. 15/By: Aust:A. Impressed. Extremely fine.
Ex Trevor Bushell Taylor Collection.
MM: LG 27/10/1916, p10486, posn 60; CAG 19/4/1917, p919, posn 6.
Recommendation: (With Bombardier Stanley Gordon Smith). For consistent gallant behaviour especially with reference to 1st June, when they entered a pit and succeeded, after great difficulty, in removing a man who had been wounded and buried owing to the explosion of a heavy shell. Immediately afterwards the pit was destroyed by another shell.
George Albert Cruickshank, carpenter, age 23, born at North Sydney, NSW; Enl.28Jul1915 at Liverpool, NSW; Emb.18Nov1915; KIA 24Apr1918 at France; buried Henencourt Wood British Memorial Cemetery, France.
With research.
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