Lot 3693

Description

Australia, WWI, tribute fob, in gold (15ct, 8.82g, 23x43mm), obverse, saluting soldier at top, rifle at each side and in front of Rising Sun, below 'Duty Bravely Done', above a shield with enamelled colours of 38Bn, around a wreath and at the base a boomerang bearing the word 'Returned', reverse inscribed, 'Presented to/Lce Cpl Radnell/38th Batt/by the/Kurting District/On his safe return/from the War.' Very fine.

Ex B.J.Hibbard Collection.

Herbert William Radnell, farm labourer, 25, born at Kurting, Vic; Enl.14Mar1916 at Bendigo, Vic; Emb.20Jun1916; WIA 09Jun1917 GSW right groin, 29Mar1918 GSW back and left side, severe, France; RTA 12Jun1919; Disch.27Jul1919.