Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

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Lot 4804    SESSION 18 (2.30PM FRIDAY 29TH JULY)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Singles

Estimate $100
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $160

AUSTRALIA SERVICE MEDAL 1939-45 TO POW. NX9816 F.Baird. Impressed. Tone spots, otherwise good very fine.

Together with unrelated dual riband bar for 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; War Medal.

Fergus Baird, labourer, born 21Oct1906 at Carlton, Vic; Enl.04Jan1940 at Victoria Barracks, Paddington, Sydney, NSW; Emb.09Jan1940;
MIA 22Jun1941 during Greek campaign; POW at Stalag 4A 22Jun1942; POW at Stalag XVIII B 14Dec1942; Repat POW ex Germany 27Oct1943 after being hospitalised for pulmonary tuberculosis for several months; RTA 24Nov1943; Disch.24Jan1944 Medically Unfit; Died of pneumonia and pleurisy 03Feb1944 at his sister's home in Woollahra, Sydney, NSW.

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