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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 428

(x) Three: Driver R. H. Monson, New Zealand Field Artillery, who served in the Balkans, Egypt and on the Western Front

1914-15 Star (7/1106 Dvr. R. H. Monson, N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (7/1106 Dvr. R. H. Monson, N.Z.E.F.), very fine (3)


Robert Hillson Monson was born on 2 August 1890 and lived with his mother, Lucy Monson, at Racecourse Road, Ashburton, New Zealand. A labourer prior to war, he enlisted into the N.Z.F.A. on 13 February 1915 and was posted to the Gallipoli theatre of operations; he made it no further than Lemnos where he was admitted to hospital suffering from dysentery on 3 October 1915; he was subsequently transferred to England and admitted to 2nd Western General Hospital at Manchester, where he remained until December 1915.

Taken back on strength in January 1916, Robert was appointed Acting Bombardier. He suffered a brief bout of enteritis in March 1917 but quickly returned to his unit. On 27 April 1918 he was posted to 15th (Howitzer) Battery, N.Z.F.A., with whom he served until the end of the war. He returned home aboard the S.S. Kia Ora, departing Liverpool on 27 March 1919; sold with copied service papers.



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