Militaria
Lot 320 eSALE (ONLINE ONLY:CLOSE FROM 9.30AM MONDAY 27TH MARCH) Militaria
Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $500
AUSTRALIA, WWI tribute fob in gold (9ct; 7.52g; 23x39mm), ring top suspension, with enamelled colour patch on obverse, this with much enamel missing, reverse inscribed, 'Pres' by/The Residents/of Antigua/To/Pte. J.L.D.Faulkner/Returned/7.3.19'. Apart from missing enamel, very fine.
5266 John Lewis David Faulkner, farmer, age 19, born at Kanyan, Qld; father: John Thomas Faulkner at Antigua, Qld; Enl.27Oct1917 at Maryborough, Qld; Emb.02Mar1918 with 15Rfts 31Bn; to ships hospital with measles 03May1918; trf to hospital in France with measles 11May1918; to England 28May1918; to 14 Trg Bn 12Aug1918; to France 29Aug1918; TOS 31Bn 02Sep1918; to hospital with haemoptysis (pulmonary or bronchial haemorrhage resulting in spitting blood from lungs or bronchial tubes) 05Sep1918 and then to hospital in England; discharged from hospital 11Nov1918; RTA 20Dec1918; Disch.04Mar1919 Medically Unfit.
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