Lot 5120

Description

Australia, Army button 'stick' in brass, a guard used to prevent cleaning agent getting on uniform when cleaning buttons, with impressed letter R on one side; Rising Sun collar badges (5), three missing a lug and one missing brooch pin; tinnie badge featuring b&w photo of an Australian soldier; Ordnance Survey map in colour of War Department Land on Salisbury Plain, published by Director General of the Ordnance Survey Office, Southampton, 1908 with Railways revised to August 1912 and further revisions by War Department 1914, on front top is written a name, very faded but appears to be '(??) G F Malley'. The map with a few small sections of paper loss at fold, foxing, otherwise overall very good - very fine. (8)

Perhaps the G F Malley is Capt Garnet Francis Malley MC, AFC. The writing appears similar to that on his enlistment papers. Malley studied map reading when he trained to be a pilot in England. He was an ace in WWI, an aviation adviser to Chiang Kai-shek's government in China during 1930s and served as an intelligence officer in WWII.