Lot 2309

Description

WWI, trench art bracelet-style dog tag, a silver 2000 dinars of Iran, AH1330 (1912) date amid legs, with bracket fitted at each side to fit on a leather wrist strap, the obverse shaved smooth and inscribed in the centre with a Middle East building rooftop scene with trees and below, 'Baghdad/1917-18', around the outer edge, '20607.SPR.B.D.WALLACE./ANZAC.WIRELESS.' Good fine and rare.

Bruce Davies Wallace, radio telegrapher, age 28, born at Auckland, NZ; Enl.19Jun1917 at East Sydney Recruiting Depot, Darlinghurst, NSW, in Light Motor Wireless Section; to Sapper 21Jun1917; to L/Cpl 08Nov1917; Emb.19Dec1917; T/2nd Cpl 19Dec1917; at Suez and reverts to Sapper 16Jan1918; at Bombay 26Feb1918; at Basra 08Mar1918; Act 2nd Cpl 28Mar1918 and joined Anzac Wireless Sqn at Baghdad; reverts to Sapper 29Mar1918; T/2nd Cpl 28May1919; awarded Meritorious Service Medal 26Oct1919 (LG 4/3/1920, p2740; CAG 8/7/1920, p945); at Bombay 11Nov1919; RTA 01Dec1919; Disch.28Jan1920.