Lot 950

Description

Y(oung) A(ustralia) L(eague), Welcome Home badge, 1911-1912, in gilt bronze (34x28mm), with pin suspension, by J.C.Taylor, ribbon missing; Haileybury College swimming medal, in bronze (32mm) with suspension loop, obverse, college arms, reverse inscribed, 'W.T.Unmack/1911'; silver prize fob medal, reverse inscribed, 'H.R.C.C./50M Time Trial/1923/Third/C.Pratt/2Hrs 37M. 40S.' Very fine - good very fine. (3)

H.R.C.C. probably Horsham Rural County Council.

Haileybury College is an independent school in Melbourne, Victoria. W.T.Unmack, later Lieutenant in MGC, non-AIF, embarked for Australia on troopship Nestor, 2 May 1919, bound for Perth.