Lot 4780

Description

Imperial Service Medal, (EIIR Dei Gratia), George Richards Vowles. Impressed. Light hairlines, otherwise good extremely fine.

Together with case of issue, this with foxing on lid lining.

ISM: Supplement to LG 29/1/1976, p1526, awarded on retirement to George Richards Vowles, Assistant, Primary Correspondence School, Department of Education, Brisbane, Queensland.

George Richards Vowles father, Henry George Vowles, whose father George Vowles was a State school teacher, was the brother of William John Vowles, a solicitor, who was the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Dalby from 1911 to 1926 and also Leader of the Opposition in Queensland. So, George Richards Vowles' grandfather was a State school teacher and his uncle was a politician who led the Queensland Opposition party from 1920 to 1923. George Richards Vowles died on 24 July 1982.