Lot 3610

Description

All Tivoli Theatres V.C. Recipient's Life Pass, in gold (15ct, 15.3g, 33mm Victoria Cross shaped) by Angus & Coote Limited, inscribed on reverse 'For Valor/In Appreciation/by/The Hon.Hugh D.McIntosh M.L.C./Lieut E.T.Towner/V.C.', presented at the dinner where each surviving Australian Victoria Cross recipient was presented with one of these passes. The pass was given to Lieut E.T.Towner A.I.F. (for Mont St Quentin - the finest single feat of the war). With correction to second initial, good extremely fine and extremely rare.

Ex Spink Australia Sale 11 (lot 247 part).

Major Edgar Thomas Towner AIF, born 19Apr1890 at Blackall, Qld; Enl.04Jan1915; RTA 01May1919; awarded VC 07Apr1918 'For most conspicuous bravery, initiative and devotion to duty on 1st September 1918, in the attack on Mont St Quentin, near Peronne, when in charge of four Vickers guns.'