Lot 3126

Description

British War Medal 1914-18. 29090 Gnr. R.A.Herd. A.F.A. A.I.F. Impressed. Toned, uncirculated.

Note: British War Medal is full medal entitlement.

Together with dog tag in aluminium and inscribed, '29090/R A Herd/116 Bty/A.F.A./M'; King's Silver War badge, reverse numbered A2525; WWI Returned from Active Service badge (AIF), pin-back, reverse inscribed, 'R.A.Herd.', and with impressed number 10285; enamelled colour patch for 116th Field Artillery Battery, with stick-pin reverse; original medal box; printed letter of thanks dated 1918 from King George V and Queen Mary; also Commonwealth Bank Of Australia 80th Anniversary medal, 1992, in bronze (40mm), and letter of issue, as well as a black folder with gold printing outlining the bank's history and inside there are two pages, one a letter from the Managing Director regarding the sale of the government's remaining shareholding in the bank with both of these pages on special cotton security paper handmade in England and with details of manufacture and the fact that these paper pages are in fact collector's items.

Richard Abbott Herd, bank clerk, age 20, born at Penrith, NSW; Enl.06Jun1916 at RAS Grounds, Sydney, with 2 ? years in Senior Cadets and 3 years with Field artillery and still serving; to Gunner with 7Bde 6Rfts FArty 01Aug1916; to 116 Howitzer Bty 01Sep1916; Emb.30Sep1916; to Devonport Military Hospital 19Nov1916 with Fibrosis of Lung; Invalided to Australia 17Mar1917; Disemb.12May1917 at Sydney; Disch.09Jun1917 Medically Unfit.