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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 86

British War Medal 1914-20 (2481 A/Sjt. R. J. B. Moffatt. 32 Bn. A.I.F.), very fine

Robert James Baird Moffatt was born around 1880 at Adelaide, and lived with his wife Edith at 50 Park Terrace, North Unley. He attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 11 December 1915 and was taken on strength with the 32nd Battalion in France on 15 October 1916, having spent considerable time posted to various depots. Wounded in action a little over two weeks later - suffering from a small shrapnel wound above the left elbow and the effects of shell shock caused by being buried by an exploding shell - Moffatt was soon thereafter evacuated to England on 29 November 1916 aboard the hospital ship Formosa. It was whilst in hospital at Stratford-upon-Avon that Moffatt began to suffer from chronic orchitis and tachycardia. Such was the uncomfortable nature of his condition that on 5 April 1917 Moffatt embarked home for Australia from Weymouth aboard the Barambah. He was discharged medically unfit on 27 July 1917 and likely returned to his civilian career as an accountant and record clerk with the tramways.

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