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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 87

British War Medal 1914-20 (3/1257 Pte. J. B. Bain. N.Z.E.F.), very fine

James Bruce Bain was born on 9 May 1887, a native of Kaywick, Mid-Yell, Shetland Islands. He attested for the New Zealand Medical Corps on 24 September 1915 and served in France from 29 August 1916 with the 1st New Zealand Field Ambulance. Wounded in action on 30 September 1917 suffering a bullet wound to the right foot, he was admitted to the Canadian General Hospital at Etaples before being evacuated to Hornchurch, England, to recover. Returning home to New Zealand aboard the Paparoa, Bain was discharged no longer physically fit for war service on account of wounds received in action on 5 December 1919.

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