Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups

Sale 118    31 Jul–3 Aug 2018   Gallery Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 4593    Session 16 (9:30am Friday 3rd August)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust. Groups

Estimate $500
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $600

GROUP OF FOUR: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19; Efficiency Medal (GVIR Indiae:Imp) with Australia suspender and with Bar. 1393 Bdr. R.L.Gillespie. L.H.Rgt. A.I.F. on first three medals, N73199 A/Sgt. R.L.Gillespie, C.M.F. on last medal. First three medals impressed, last medal engraved. Display mounted, fine - good very fine.

Ex Spink & Son (Australia) purchase 1979.

Robert Laing Gillespie, labour overseer and book keeper, age 27, born at Homebush, Sydney, NSW; Enl.04Aug1915 at Liverpool, NSW with previous service of 1 year in Sydney Scottish Rifles in 1907; Emb.25Oct1915 with 7LHR reinforcements; TOS MEF 28Dec1915; to hospital with mumps 11Feb1916; TOS 2LH Res Rgt 01Mar1916; TOS 10FAB from 2LHR 26Mar1916; to hospital with appendicitis 12Aug1916; to Bde 30Jul1917; to School of Instruction 23May1918; received Div Cmdr's congratulations on very satisfactory pass at Lewis Gunner's School 23Jun1918; WIA 30Jun1918 shrapnel to right thigh, France; RTA 12Jun1919; Disch.04Aug1919; WWII: Enl.30May1940 at Paddington, Sydney, NSW; Disch.14Dec1948 as Lance Sergeant ex 1 Movement Control Group.

With research.

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