Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
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Lot 4060 SESSION 19 (2.30PM FRIDAY 28TH JULY) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups
Estimate $400
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $360
GROUP OF SIX: 1939-45 Star; Africa Star with 8th Army clasp; Pacific Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. VX14375 J.Shields on first to fifth medals, impressed, last medal unnamed. Mounted for display, nearly extremely fine.
Jack Shields, Station hand, age 30yrs, born Coen, Qld; Enl.18Jun1941 in Claremont, West Australia; Emb.07Nov1941 Fremantle for the Middle East; RTA 27Jan1943; Emb.07Aug1943 Cairns for Port Moresby; WIA 24Oct1943 GSW during Japanese counter attack on Scarlet Beach as part of and advance to and capture of Finschhafen; Disemb.Sydney on hospital ship 'Manunda' 01Mar1944; Disch 11Aug1944 as Medically Unfit.
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