Lot 1937

Description

Oil share certificates, Australian Oil Wells Company No Liability, Melbourne, one hundred shares, 14 October 1913; Australian Oil Wells Prospecting Syndicate No Liability, Nelson, Victoria, one share, 24 November 1926; Australian Petroleum Development Company No Liability, one share, 1 August 1921; Kalimna Oil Company No Liability, Lakes Entrance, Victoria, twenty shares, 29 April 1930, transfer signed on back; Woodside (Lakes Entrance) Oil Company No Liability, fifty shares, 31 may 1956; Tanjil Oil Company No Liability, lakes Entrance, Victoria, one hundred shares, 1 July 1930, transfer signed on back; Roma Ormildah Associated Oil Fields Limited, fifty shares, 3 July 1931, named to Major Rupert Edward Fanning (see footnote); Roma Oil Corporation Limited, ten shares, 29 March 1928; Australian Oil Corporation No Liability, South Australia, ninety six shares, 12 March 1923, transfer signed on back; Associated Oil Corporation Limited, Mount gambier, South Australia, twenty shares, 2 February 1922; Elcho Island Naptha-Petroleum Company Limited, ten shares, 18 December 1923. Some with edge tears or paper loss at edges, otherwise very good - very fine. (11)

Major (later Honorary Colonel) Rupert Edward Fanning, awarded DSO for gallantry in WWI and also recipient of USA Legion of Merit. He had an impressive military career of more than thirty years and was also Manager of Royal Melbourne Hospital. He died in 1954.