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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 156

(x) Pair: Driver J. Lenthall, Signal Squadron, Australian Imperial Force, late 9th Light Horse

British War and Victory Medals (3058 T-Dvr J. Lenthall. 1 Sig. Sqdn. A.I.F.), officially re-impressed naming, sometime cleaned and lacquered, nearly very fine (2)

Jack Lenthall was born in 1895, the son of Mrs. Adeline Lenthall of Church Terrace, Walkerville, South Australia. A 'colt breaker' by trade, he enlisted on 18 September 1916 into the 9th Light Horse Regiment, 23rd Reinforcement and embarked from Adelaide to Egypt aboard H.M.A.T. Bulla on 16 January 1917. Initially serving as Trumpeter, he transferred to the Royal Engineers Signal Base Depot at Alexandria before being attached to ANZAC No. 12 Division as Temporary Driver. Involved in the Capture of Beersheba in late October 1917, his service was thereafter hampered by appendicitis and a post-war period of absence without leave. Following 4 days' field punishment, he returned home aboard Kantara on 14 June 1919.

Lenthall died on 13 February 1931 as a result of an accident, and is buried in the A.I.F. Cemetery, Adelaide, South Australia; sold with contemporary Cloretta Lever wristwatch, currently non-functioning, crudely named to reverse 'Lenthall, Buccleuch, 21.3.18 S.A.'; Australia Returned Sailors & Soldiers Imperial League badge, impressed 'A7225' to reverse, and Australia Returned from Active Service badge, impressed '254863' to reverse, by Stokes & Sons, Melbourne; portrait photograph of recipient, and approximately 20 contemporary photographs associated with his Great War service.

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