Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

Sale 109    28–30 Jul 2015   Dixson Room,   Sydney

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Lot 4599    Session 14 (4.30pm Thursday)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,050

MILITARY MEDAL, (GVR type 1). 235 Cpl H. McFarlane. 21/Aust:Inf: Impressed. Extremely fine.

Ex Trevor Bushell Taylor Collection.

MM: LG 11/5/1917, p4601, posn 72; CAG 27/8/1917, p1829, posn 35.

Recommendation: For conspicuous gallantry near Warlencourt on the night of 24th/25th February 1917 in establishing a Lewis Gun post in an enemy trench 500 yards in front of our lines. The fire from this gun subsequently proved of the greatest value to our advance.

Hector McFarlane, boundary rider, age 28, born at Casterton, Vic; Enl.13Jan1915 at Melbourne, Victoria; Emb.08May1915 to Gallipoli; WIA 24Aug1916 shrapnel wound to back, France; WIA 04Oct1917 GSW neck, France; RTA 22May1919; Disch.22Jul1919.

With research.

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