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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 85

British War Medal 1914-20 (2461 S/Sjt. E. F. Shepherdson. 10/A.S.C. A.I.F.), minor contact marks, very fine

[M.S.M.] Commonwealth of Australia Gazette 3 June 1919.

Ernest Field Shepherdson was born around 1893 at Allansford, Victoria, Australia. He attested at Melbourne for the 10th Battalion, Australian Army Service Corps on 25 September 1914, being appointed Shoeing Smith and Farrier Staff Sergeant two days later. Posted to Egypt with the 1st Battalion, Australian Army Service Corps, Shepherdson was admitted to hospital on 31 July 1915 with a septic hand. He recovered at Alexandria and was subsequently posted to Gallipoli, before later serving on the Western Front with the 5th Divisional Train, Australian Army Service Corps. It was here that he suffered health complaints which led to regular hospital admissions at Etaples and the granting of 'Special Leave' to return home in late 1918. Shepherdson departed Le Havre bound for Australia on 12 October 1918 aboard H.T. Port Lyttleton, being discharged at Melbourne in February 1919; further entitled to 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal.


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