Lot 2998

Description

Group of Ten to WIA: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45; Australia Service Medal 1939-45; Tobruk Siege Medal 1941. 1275 Tpr. T.H.A.Spencer. 3 L.H.R. A.I.F. on first three medals, QX 3279 A.T.H.Spencer on fourth, fifth, seventh, eighth and ninth medals, sixth medal unnamed, A.Spencer QX 3279 on last medal. The last medal engraved, the other named medals impressed with the third medal renamed, possibly officially. Very fine - extremely fine.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 73 (lot 2335) 8-10/7/2003 and Ross Sutton Collection.^Thomas Henry Alphonsus Spencer (AKA Jack Russell) and also Alfred Thomas Henry Spencer.^WWI: Thomas Henry Alphonsus Spencer (originally enlisted under the name Jack Russell and adjusted this by Statutory Declaration dated 11/5/1918), labourer, age 19, born at Brisbane, Qld; Enl.22Apr1915 at Keswick, Sth Aust and to 3LHR; Emb.21Sep1915; to Gallipoli 13Nov1915; TOS 1LHR 01Mar1916; trf to Camel Corps 05May1916; trf to AATD 15May1916; to France 11Nov1916; TOS 32Bn 22Nov1916; RTA 22Apr1919; Disch.11Jul1919; 06Apr1956 duplicate WWI Trio posted to Spencer to replace medals lost. WWII: Alfred Thomas Henry Spencer (same person as Thomas Henry Alphonsus Spencer), labourer, age 42, born at Brisbane, Qld; Enl.28Jan1942 at Brisbane, Qld and previously discharged as Medically Unfit (QX3279) with service in Libya; WIA 18Apr1941 GSW to both ankles; Disch.11Jan1946 as Sgt ex 4 Aust Marine Food Supply Platoon with service in New Britain 14Jul to 23Dec1945.^With basic research.