Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria
Lot 3701 Session 15 (7.30pm Thursday) Orders, Decorations & Medals - Militaria
Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $360
AUSTRALIA, WWI, tribute fob, in gold (15ct, 5.87g, 30x38mm), obverse, soldier with rifle in oval frame, at sides kangaroo and emu, above enamelled flags of Great Britain and Australia (the Red Ensign in common use), reverse inscribed, 'Presented/to/Pte A.P.Ewins/by the/Residents of Tutye/in recognition/of his services/to the Empire'. Uncirculated.
Ex Australian Coin Auctions No.272 (lot 1136) and B.J.Hibbard Collection.
Tutye is an area situated on the section of the Mallee Highway between Ouyen and the South Australian border in the Sunraysia region of Victoria.
Albert Percival Ewins, farmer, age 22, born at Stawell, Vic; Enl.19Aug1914 at Broadmeadows, Vic; Emb.19Oct1914; served with 38Bn; WIA 25Apr1915 GSW left foot, at Gallipoli; to hospital with VD on 28Mar1916 and 29Apr1916; RTA 02Jul1917; Disch.03Aug1917 Medically Unfit.
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