Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Lot 1114    Session 5 (2:30pm Tuesday 26th July)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $950

TRIO: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 1554 Pte L.F.Garstang 17/Bn A.I.F. All medals impressed. Good - very fine.

Together with medalet in gold (9ct, 9.8g, 31mm) Gallipoli 1915, inscribed on obverse 'Forbes Welcomes You Home' and on reverse 'Pte Leo/F.Garstang'; ID disc '38337/Gar/Leo Garstang/C of E/A.F.A. A.I.F.'; Rising Sun hat badge, collar badges (2); Australia shoulder titles (2); ribbon bars (2); soldiers pay book; statement of account; photos (2).

Pte Leo Franklin Garstang, railway porter, later electrician, age 20, born Forbes NSW; Enl.09Apr1915 Sydney (sern 1554); operations Gallipoli Sept1915; evacuated to Alexandria with enteric 02Oct1915; RTA sick with typhoid 13Dec1915; Disch.21Jul1916 at Melbourne as medically unfit; Re-attested in Australian Military Force 11Jan1917 at Paddington NSW, as 2nd Military District Guard (sern 60); L-Cpl 12Feb1917; Absent without Leave at Hawkesbury Bridge 01Apr1917; Discharged and then re-attested in Australian Imperial Force, 15May1917 Sydney (sern 38337); operations France and Flanders with 8th FAB from 29Jun1918 and in the advance on the Hindenberg Line; WIA 25Oct1918 with gas poisoning near Peronne; RTA 12Dec1918; Disch.22Mar1919.

With 37 photocopy pages of service details.