Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Lot 3997    SESSION 19 (2.30PM FRIDAY 28TH JULY)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Estimate $520
Bid at live.noble.com.au

GROUP OF FIVE: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. 548 Pte S.L.Cameron. 1/Bn. A.I.F. on first three medals, N75788 S.L.Cameron on last two medals. All medals impressed. Swing mounted but without mounting bar, contact marks and spotting on last medal, otherwise fine - very fine.

Together with Anzac Commemorative Medallion 1915, issued in 1967, in bronze (50x75mm) (C.1915/3), named to S.L.Cameron; Rising Sun hat badge (KC) in oxidised bronze (one lug missing); Returned from Active Service badge (AIF) in bronze, reverse numbered 164182; Army driving Licence; Soldier's Record Of Service Book in dilapidated leather holder; AIF Soldier's Pay Book; Demobilization Procedure Book; original telegram date stamped 10 Nov 1915 advising mother that her son has been admitted to hospital in Bristol with dysentery; a typed poem 'To My Mother', on AMF letterhead; a quantity of b&w photos and postcards, some used and a few in colour, one leading unit in 1939 Anzac Day March.

Sidney Lindsay Cameron, carter, age 20, born at Newtown, Sydney, NSW; WWI: Enl.21Aug1914 at Sydney, NSW, in 1Rfts for 1Bn, with 2 years in Irish Rifles (33Infy); Emb.10Oct1914; TOS 1Bn 21Aug1914; to Gallipoli ex Alexandria 05Apr1915; to hospital with septic knee 11Sep1915; Emb.21Oct1915 ex Mudros to England; to Bulford Hospital with venereal disease 21Jul1916; discharged to duty 04Aug1916; to France 14Aug1916; WIA 27Sep1916 shell wound head in France and to hospital in England; TOS 61Bn 04Apr1917; to 1Bn 19Sep1917; to France 10Nov1917; to hospital sick in France 13Jan1918 with trench feet; to hospital 04Apr1918 sprained ankle; discharged from hospital 11May1918; rejoined unit 28May1918; to hospital sick 23Aug1918 with rheumatism; tfr to another hospital with myalgia 26Aug1918; returned to unit 18Sep1918; RTA 23Oct1918 for Special 1914 Leave; Disch.22Feb1919.; WWII: now a taxi-driver, age 42, living at Pyrmont, Sydney, NSW; Enl.26Jun1940 at Paddington, Sydney, NSW; TOS 11 Garrison Bn 01Jul1940; to L/Cpl 07Mar1941; trf to Security Service Intelligence Corps (NSW) 28Jan1943; to Cpl 09Mar1943; Disch.16Nov1945; Died 06Aug1966 at Erskineville, Sydney, NSW; Buried at Eastern Suburbs Memorial Park, Sydney on 10Aug1966.

Between the wars, Sidney Cameron drove taxis and in 1930 he was charged with manslaughter. The Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday 12 February 1930 reported on page 12 as follows, 'Sidney Lindsay Cameron, a taxi-cab driver, was charged with having feloniously slain Paul Hilary John McMahon Swafield Lofting, a boy, 14 years of age, in William-street, city, on November 25. Mr. Dovey (instructed by Mr. Simon Isaacs) appeared for the accused. Alfred John Stephens, a taxi-cab driver, stated that he saw the cab driven by the accused swerve outwards to get past traffic. He was travelling at about 25 miles an hour. He struck the boy, who was waiting at the stopping-place for a tram, knocking him down. Constable Bush said that the accused was quite sober. At the conclusion of the Crown case, the Jury acquitted the accused without leaving the box.'

With copy of both Service Files and other research.