Lot 2807

Description

Trio: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. All medals with naming removed. Display mounted, good very fine.

Together with Anzac Commemorative Medallion 1915, issued 1967, in bronze (50x75mm) (C.1915/3) engraved, 'F.A.Weeks', in case of issue; photocopy of MID Certificate advice dated 23 May 1919 under perspex in a timber frame (32.5x23.5cm); another photocopy of MID Certificate advice dated 13 November 1919; b&w photo of F.A.Weeks in uniform outside of a tent; Peace medalet 1919 as issued to school children.
MID: LG 21/1/1919, p1165; CAG 23/5/1919, p895 - to CQMS F.A.Weeks - - By Gen Sir E.H.H.Allenby GCB, GCMG, C-in-C, Egyptian Expeditionary Force for conspicuous services rendered.
MID (2nd): LG 5/6/1919, p7190; CAG 6/10/1919, p1466, to CQMS F.A.Weeks - By Gen Sir E.H.H.Allenby GCB, GCMG, C-in-C, Egyptian Expeditionary Force for conspicuous services rendered during the period from 19 September 1918 to 31 January 1919.
Frank Alexander Weeks, seaman, age 22, born at Maryborough, Qld; Enl.29Aug1914 at Brisbane, Qld; to Driver 29Aug1914 with 5ASC; Emb.23Sep1914; to Gallipoli 10Jul1915; attached to 1LHR 27May1916; TOS 1LH Bde Machine Gun Sqdn 05Oct1916; to T/Cpl 14Dec1916 and Tfr to No.1 Depot Camel Transport Corps; to T/Sgt 18Mar1917; to ER/CQMS 15Apr1918; RTA 18Dec1918 for 1914 Anzac Leave; Disch.12Apr1919.
In a newspaper report following the award of the MID to QMS Weeks, it was stated that after the evacuation from Gallipoli, Weeks who had become fluent in Arabic drifted into a camel transport corps in charge of some hundred Egyptians and camels. They were attached to the troops that took the long desert trail across the forbidding Sinai fighting the Turks from the north and had many unique experiences in the strenuous days of the big advance in the region of the Jordan, on the Northern Hills, when the hopes of the troops lay in the supply trains. His consistent effort and coolness earned him the commendation of General Allenby.