Orders, Decorations & Medals - Other Commonwealth Med

Lot 2949    SESSION 14 (2.30PM THURSDAY 23RD NOV)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Other Commonwealth Medal

Estimate $150
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $320

GROUP OF EIGHT: British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19; 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration (GVIR) with New Zealand suspender. R/Ment 69486 Tpr J Hartwell NZMR on first two medals, the third to seventh medals unnamed, R/Ment Major J M J Hartwell WWCT on last medal. The first two medals impressed, the last medal engraved. Court mounted, a few ribbons damaged, the first medal with dark toned areas, otherwise very fine - good very fine.

James Montague Job Hartwell, farmer, born 02Jan1897 at Waitotara, South Taranaki; Enl.17Oct1917; Emb.23Apr1918 with 37 Rfts Mounted Rifles Brigade, NZEF; RTNZ 20Apr1919; Disch.04Sep1919 Medically Unfit due to malaria; continued service in the Army and served in WWII under Service No.69162; to 2/Lieut 15Sep1928; to Capt 04May1936; to Major 01Nov1940; rising to rank of Major; placed on Reserve of Officers 30Aug1944; to Wellington West Coast and Taranaki Regt 08Oct1948; awarded Efficiency Decoration 12Feb1952 while on Retired List; Died 07Aug1988 at Whanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui; Buried at Aramoho Cemetery, Whanganui, Manawatu.
Correspondence in James Hartwell's service file states that his only medal entitilement for WW2 was the War Medal 1939-45 and New Zealand War Service Medal 1939-45.