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Sale 86    21–23 Nov 2007   Hotel InterContinental   Sydney

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Lot 4045    SESSION 13 (Friday at 2.30pm)    Australian Groups

Estimate $8,000
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $8,400

GROUP OF FIVE: Distinguished Service Medal 1938-1949 (GVIR); 1939-45 Star; Pacific Star - bar - Burma; British War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45. L.G.Hansen A.B. on first medal, B2345 L.G.Hansen on second to last medal. All five medals impressed. Good very fine.

Leonard George Hansen. Able Seaman. Enl.30Jan1939 Disch.21Dec1945. DSM. 'For skill, resolution and coolness whilst serving in HMAS Australia during operations in the Solomon Islands. (9 February 1943). Together with photographs, typed interview with L.G.Hansen 25Oct1986, newspaper clippings, 14 photocopy pages of service details and examinations.

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