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Lot 5276    Session 19 (4.30pm Friday 25 November)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria

Estimate $50
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $240

WWII SOUVENIR BANKNOTE, an Italian one hundred lire, 30 April 1936 (P.55a) R184 0231, possibly taken from an Italian POW at Tobruk, penned in left watermark area, 'QX7060/F.F.Morgan/9. Bn./A.I.F.' and penned in right watermark area, 'To/Shirley Morgan/7 Sully St./Randwick/Sydney.' Several folds and some edge toning, otherwise very fine.

QX7060 Francis Fitzmorrise, born 10Nov1915 at Sydney, NSW; Enl.01Apr1940 at Kelvin Grove, Qld; KIA 04May1941 at age 25; buried at Tobruk War Cemetery. Morgan's regular unit was 2/4 Field Amb, AAMC. It appears that Private Morgan was attached to the 9 Bn when he has sent this banknote to his wife at Randwick as a souvenir.

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