Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Lot 3993    SESSION 19 (2.30PM FRIDAY 28TH JULY)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

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OBE GROUP OF EIGHT: The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, type 2 breast badge, Officer (OBE) (Civil); 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. The first medal unnamed, 5102 Pte J.C.Mullaly 2/A.S.C. A.I.F. on second medal, Lieut J.C.Mullaly. A.I.F. on third and fourth medals, VX108390 J.C.Mullaly on last four medals. All named medals impressed. Court mounted, first ribbon damaged and other ribbons toned, some medals with oxidation or toning, otherwise very fine.

OBE (Civil): LG 14/12/1937, p7850, to John Charles Mullaly, Esq., Non-Official Member of the Legislative and Executive Councils, New Guinea - For services rendered in connection with the recent volcanic eruptions in the Mandated Territory of New Guinea.

John Charles Mullaly, clerk, age 19, born at Camberwell, Hawthorn, Vic; (WWI) Enl.26Oct1914 at Melbourne, Vic, with 15 months prior service in Infantry; to 3LH Bde 01Nov1914; Emb.01Feb1915; Trf to 1 Army Pay Corps and promoted to Cpl 01Dec1915; to AIF HQs, Cairo 08May1916; various Admin postings and hospitalisations and then detached for duty at AIF War Chest Club, London 08Sep1916; to Ordnance Corps 17Oct1916; various admin postings until detached to Gen Supply Office 01Jun1917; to France 04Jul1917; further admin postings and then TOS 43Bn 29Sep1917; WIA 05Oct1917, GSW back (severe), Ypres, France and to hospital in England; to France 09Apr1918; to T/Sgt 26May1918; to 2Lt on probation 06Jan1919; to Lt 06Apr1919; RTA 08Oct1919; Appt terminated 13Feb1920; as of 20Sep1934 residing at Natava, New Britain, New Guinea and in New Guinea Volunteer Rifles Oct1939 - Apr1941. (WWII) Enl.29Jul1941 at Royal Park, Vic (now a planter in New Guinea, age 47) in AHQ (V17965); Enl.08Sep1942 at Rabaul, New Guinea, for overseas service, in LHQ (M-1) attached GHQ (C.O.I.C.) S.W.P. Area (VX108930); to T/Lt 13Oct1939; to Lt 11Jul1941; TOS AHQ 'G' Branch & Appt Intelligence Officer 11Jul1941; to T/Capt 17Oct1941; to Capt 20Nov1943; to T/Maj 08Feb1945; to Maj 28Mar1945 and on same date to T/Lt Col; to Lt Col 27Sep1945; served in various postings in Australia and New Guinea; relinquished command of Pacific Islands Infantry Depot Battalion and placed upon Regimental Supernumerary List 12Jul1946 (CAG No.182, 26/9/1946, p2725); to Reserve of Officers 29Nov1946.

It was reported in the August 1941 edition of Pacific Islands Monthly that the Hon. J.C.Mullaly, OBE, MLC, of Rabaul, New Guinea, arrived in Australia last month to take up special military duties. One of the most prominent public men in the Territory, Mr. Mullaly has been for many years President of the Planters' Association and is a Senior Non-Official Member of the Legislative and Executive Councils of New Guinea. A Victorian, he served in the 1914-18 war in the 3rd Light Horse and the 43rd Battalion. He went to NG in 1921 as audit inspector for the Expropriation Board; was a Native Affairs inspector in 1924; and the following year became a Magistrate in New Ireland. Since 1926 he has been engaged in planting.'

With copy of Service Files and other research.