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Auction: 17003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 658

(x) ANZAC Commemorative Medallion, bronze, 75 x 50 mm., obverse scene depicting Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, 3rd Field Ambulance, A.I.F., with donkey, with the legend '1915 ANZAC', reverse with an outline of Australia and New Zealand, with the 'Southern Cross', the lower reverse named to 'M. G. Butcher', extremely fine

Maxwell Gordon Butcher - a resident of Rosetta, Tasmania - was born in Epping, England in about 1892. By the outbreak of the Great War, he was working as a draper's assistant at New Norfolk and he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force at Pontville, Tasmania on 20 August 1914; he stated that he had earlier served in the 5th Battalion, Royal West Surrey Regiment. Posted to the 3rd Australian Light Horse, he served in 'C' Squadron in Gallipoli, where he was wounded at Monash valley on 31 May 1915; sold with further details.

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Estimate
£140 to £180