Lot 4490

Description

Victoria Cross and George Cross Association Xmas card, 1966, signed Joe and Anne Maxwell; Victoria Cross riband with VC emblem; RFC silk postcard WWI; woven RAAF pilot's wings (KC); United Nations woven, circular arm badge; bullion embroidered blazer patch RNA DEESIDE (Deeside Royal Naval Association). The last as new, the postcard and Xmas cards and wings with foxing, otherwise fine - uncirculated. (6)

Ex J. and J. Edwards Collection.

Joseph Maxwell, probably the second most highly decorated Australian soldier of WWI being awarded Victoria Cross, Military Cross and Bar and Distinguished Conduct Medal. He married his second wife, a widow Anne Martin, in 1956. He died in 1967 and his wife donated his medals to the Victoria Barracks Army Museum.