Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Sale 134    20–24 Nov 2023   Dixson Room, State Library of NSW   Sydney

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Lot 2930    SESSION 14 (2.30PM THURSDAY 23RD NOV)    Orders, Decorations & Medals - Australian Groups

Estimate $120
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $80

PAIR: Australia Service Medal 1939-45; War Medal 1939-45. 130451 R.S.Taylor. Both medals impressed. Some hairlines, otherwise extremely fine.

Ex Ken O'Brien Collection.
Together with medal/badges for Alice Taylor, includes Lidcombe Hospital medal in gilt and enamel and suspended from a pin-back bar marked 'Geriatric Nurse', the reverse of the bar inscribed, 'A.Taylor', and the reverse of the medal inscribed, 'Pres. by/Hunters Hill/Gladesville/Lions Club/A.Taylor/NU 505854'; pin-back badge in gilt and enamel for Perth 1972, N.Z.R.B.A.; pin-back badge in gilt and enamel with epoxy coating for North Haven Bowling Club; name badge for Alice Taylor.
Robert Stewart Taylor, coach painter, age 27, born at Cowra, NSW; previous service of 2 days in AMF and then declared unfit due to hernia operation; Enl.28Jan1943 in RAAF at No.2 Recruiting Centre, Woolloomooloo, Sydney, NSW at rank of AC1; to LAC 01Dec1943 at mustering of Fitter General; various postings within Australia until Disch.13Feb1946.

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