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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 211

(x) 1914-15 Star (12/1048 Sjt. E. H. M. Cohen, N.Z.E.F.), good very fine

Ernest Henry Melmott Cohen served with the Auckland Regiment, N.Z.E.F., under the alias 'Drummond'. He died of wounds on 10 August 1915, likely received in the preceding days when New Zealand forces attacked, captured and then attempted to hold the high peak of Chunuk Bair in the face of repeated Turkish counter-attacks. The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Cohen, of Darley Chambers, 156 King Street, Sydney, Australia, he is commemorated at the Embarkation Pier Cemetery.

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