Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust Singles

Lot 3584    Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday 22nd November)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Aust Singles

Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $420

AUSTRALIA SENIOR CADETS COMMONWEALTH MILITARY COMPETITIONS, Brigade Competitions 1912-13 Champion Team. Cadet E.G.Helson 32nd Battn. Engraved. Ribbon damaged on back, good very fine.

The 32nd Battn were part of the 8th Brigade of 2rd Military District (NSW).

Pte E.G.Helsop served in the AIF and qualified for the 1914-15 Star, the British War Medal 1914-18 and the Victory Medal 1914-19 however the Standing Medals Board ruled that, owing to his unsatisfactory war record combined with the fact that he did not rejoin his unit after being sentenced to 2 years detention on 2/7/18, Pte Helson forfeited any claim to the award of war medals.

Ernest George Helson, storeman, age 18, born at Camperdown, Sydney, NSW; Enl.01Mar1915 at Liverpool, NSW in 17 Bn, with previous service of 2 years in Senior Cadets and also in Militia; Emb.12May1915; ops in Gallipoli from 19Aug1915; WIA 29Aug1915 at Gallipoli near Hill 60, GSW left buttock; AWOL on several occasions in England in late 1915, 1916, 1917 and again in 1918; to hospital with VD 30Jun1916 and again 16Aug1916; to Army Ordnance Corps Depot 17Oct1916; to hospital with VD 24Feb1917; to camp Perham Downs 18Apr1917; to 63Bn 28Apr1917; Driver at Hurdcott 18May1917; convicted of stealing between 06Feb and 13Jun1918 and awarded 2 years imprisonment with hard labour at Wandsworth and then Lewes; sentence remitted from 05Jul1919 and RTA 06Jul1919; Disch.19Oct1919.

With research.