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Lot 197 SESSION 1 eSALE ONLINE ONLY (MON 24TH JULY CLOSE FROM 9.30AM Militaria
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $550
NEW ZEALAND, WWI, memorial fob in gold (9ct; 9.72g; 29mm), ring and scroll top suspension, obverse inscribed, '1914-18/The/Great War', reverse inscribed, 'In Memory Of/Private/M.Olive/From/Tapanui/N.Z.'. Nearly extremely fine.
Melville Henry Chaloner Olive, born 1883; single of Tapanui, NZ; Enl. at Otago in Otago Infantry Regt 1 Bn, service number 8/2690; Emb.14Aug1915; DOW 23Oct1916; Buried at Estaires Communal Cemetery, Nord, France.
Melville Olive's father was living in Queensland, Australia and had published in a number of Queensland newspapers the following tribute - Melville Henry Chaloner Olive, of Otago Infantry Regt., New Zealand Expdy. Forces, age 33 years, second son of Captain Henry Olive, late R.M.L.I., and Mrs. Henry Olive, "Bruton", Stanthorpe. Died of wounds in France on 23rd October.
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