Lot 3334

Description

WWI, trench art bracelet-style dog tag, a Turkish silver ten kurush, 1914, with bracket fitted at each side to fit on a leather wrist strap, the reverse shaved smooth and inscribed in the centre is a Middle East building rooftop scene with trees and across the lower half, 'Baghdad/1918-19', around the outer edge, '23022. Spr. L.C.BOUSTEAD' at the top and at the bottom, 'ANZAC.W.LESS'. Very fine/fine and rare.

Leslie Charles Boustead, mechanic, age 23, born at Junee, NSW; Enl.01Dec1917 at Showground Camp, Sydney, NSW; to Wireless Training School as Sapper 04Dec1917; Emb.14Sep1918 with Wireless Rfts (Mesopotamia); Disemb.23Oct1918 at Basrah; joined 1 Aust Wireless Sig Stn from Rfts 16Nov1918; RTA 23Apr1919; Disch.07Jun1919.