Rifle Shooting Awards
Lot 1103 Day 1 Rifle Shooting Awards
Estimate $1,200
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MERTON DISTRICT, ANZAC, Canterbury Rifles, fob medal, handcrafted in gold (9ct, 15.3g, 42x32mm), unidentified maker, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'N.Z.E.F./Presented/To/Private J.A.Kane/From Residents of/Merton District/on His Return to NZ/March 7th 1918'; another, ANZAC, 24th Reinforcements N.Z.E.F., fob medal, handcrafted in gold (9ct, 16.0g, 45x35mm), unidentified maker, ring top suspension, reverse inscribed 'France/Presented To/Rifleman J.C.Kane/By/Residents of/Merton/District/on/His Return to/N.Z./26-5-19'. Extremely fine. (2)
28889 Pte James Augustus Kane, 18th Reinforcements, J Company, NZEF, embarked from New Zealand 11 October 1916, Died of Influenza in Otago 14 November 1918, aged 25.^^44643 Rflm Joseph Constantine Kane, Reinforcements, J Company, NZRB, embarked from New Zealand 26 April 1917, Died 10 October 1977 aged 87.^^Sons of Mr and Mrs Peter Kane, of Evansdale, Otago.^^Four brothers served in WW1: James Augustus Kane (28889), Joseph Constantine Kane (44643), Hugh Kane (29554), Daniel Kane (53204).^^Typo on the Nominal Roll, name spelled as James Agustus Kane. Death registration and buried as James Augustine Kane.
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