Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Fire Bri

Lot 1565    SESSION 5 (9.30AM TUESDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER)    Sporting & General Medals, Badges & Awards - Fire Briga

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FAMILY GROUP, fire brigade, St John and a service medal from the Boer War: Queen's South Africa Medal 1899, clasp Transvaal. 2599 Pte. C.Swanston. Rly: Pnr: Regt. Impressed; H.R.F.B. (Hillside Railway Fire Brigade) (Dunedin), hand engraved in gold (9ct, 5.9g, 32x28mm), uncertain maker, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'Sec.G.Swanson/2nd/Aggregate/1911'; N.Z. United Fire Brigades Association, 5 Years Service Medal, by A.T. (Anton Teutenberg, Auckland), with (2) 2 Years and (1) 6 Years service clasps (ribbon disintergrating), reverse inscribed 'Foreman/A.G.A.Swanson/By The/New Zealand/Government/6-9-1914' (D&C.L3; O&D.115); H.R.F.B., handcrafted in gold (9ct, 7.8g, 40x40mm), by Rusbatch (Mosgiel), ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'H.R.F.B./3rd Aggregate/Won By/Secretary Geo.Swanson/1914'; another, handcrafted in gold (9ct, 16.6g, 40x40mm), uncertain maker, ring top, ribbon and bar with pin-back, reverse inscribed 'To/Foreman/A.G.A.Swanson/For/past services as Secretary/From 26-7-10 to 24-1-16/Leaving With/13th Reinforcements/10-2-16'; S.Dis.F.B.A. (Southern Districts Fire Brigade Association), hand engraved in gold (15ct, 7.1g, 31mm), no maker, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'St Kilda/1920/Aggregate/Won By/Secy.G.Swanson'; another, hand engraved in gold (15ct, 6.7g, 38x27mm), obverse inscribed '3 Men/Union', reverse inscribed 'S.Dis.F.B.A./St Kilda 1920/Won By/Secy G.Swanson'; also, Imperial School of Instruction, Zeitoun (Cairo), 1919, Recreational Training, struck in bronze (45mm) by P.Minassian, Cairo, reverse inscribed '2nd Prize/Cpl.Swanson G./2nd N.Z.M.G.S.'; Service Medal of the Order of St John, struck in silver, with (2) 5 Years Service bars, 2303.D/O A.G.S.Swanson Otago Dis N.Z. SJAB.O 1938. Engraved (O&D.113); The St John Ambulance Association, Re-examination Medallion in silver, with year bars for 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1935, inscribed on reverse '326220/Albert G A Swanson'; another, as last but year bar for 1938, reverse inscribed '439813/William J.Swanson'. Fine - extremely fine. (11)