Militaria

Lot 3643    Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday 22nd November)    Militaria

Estimate $200
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $360

9TH LIGHT HORSE COMMEMORATIVE BUGLE, in copper and brass with mouthpiece, at the front top of the horn area is inscribed, 'R.Correll/Sole Agent/Adelaide/Presented to the/8th Reinforcements/9th Light Horse/by Julia Augusta Stuckey/Unley Park'. Around the horn end severely battered and the whole bugle looks like it has had a very hard time in the war and maybe has suffered from several blasts of shrapnel with many dents, otherwise good and historically significant.

R.Correll was the proprietor of Correll's Music Store at 140 Rundle Street, Adelaide. This bugle was presented by Mrs Webb on behalf of Miss Julia Stuckey to Sergeant McDonald acting as representative of the 8th Reinforcements to the 9th Light Horse at a special function held by the Cheer-Up Society at the Arcadia Caf‚ on Saturday 17 July 1915 attended by 450-500 men including some New Zealanders and nurses were also in attendance. The New Zealanders were given a 'coo-ee' welcome and later they responded with a Maori war cry.

Miss Julia Stuckey of Unley Park was a very prominent member of the Cheer-Up Society helping to raise funds for many important projects to assist Australian troops. Sergeant McDonald referred to above is probably 1131 Sergeant John Frederick McDonald, 9LHR, a quarryman who enlisted on 18 January 1915 with 12 years previous military service in England and the Boer War with 1st S.R. He embarked on 26 August 1915 with 8th Reinforcements for the 9LHR. He died of Typhus on 21 April 1918 in Egypt and was buried at Kantara War Memorial Cemetery, Egypt, by RC Chaplain George A.C.Carlisle on the same day.