Lot 5055

Description

Australia, the Australian Army medal, undated, in enamelled bronze (37x4mm diamond), obverse, Rising Sun hat badge and below 'Lieutenant Colonel/Brian Hawke', reverse, hopping kangaroo as on Australian rural road signs; also WWI Victory Medal 1914-19 named to 6487 Pte B.Warman 12-Lond.R., no ribbon and pitting; Germany, Prussia, Kaiser Wilhelm I Memorial Medal, 1897, no suspension and pitting; also commemorative medals including, Australia, Fifty Years of Commonwealth of Australia, 1951 in bronze (31mm); Canada, Confederation, 1927, in bronze (25mm); Great Britain, Prince Charles & Lady Diana, 1981, in bronze (27.5mm); New Zealand, Children's Souvenir for Royal Visit, 1901, in bronze (27mm); South Africa, Paul Kruger Centenary/Kruger House, 1825-1904, (undated modern issue), in white metal (31mm); USA, Andrew Jackson 'Old Hickory', undated, in bronze (25mm), Souvenir of Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 1904, in bronze (34mm). The first uncirculated, the second two poor, the rest very good - uncirculated. (10)

Lt Col Brian Hawke, a former commander of the Army Parachute Training School, was a military adviser to the UN Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI). He was based in Kirkuk and was one of the last two Australian officers to leave Iraq when he concluded his final rotation under Operation Riverbank and departed on 25 November 2013.