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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 245

(x) British War Medal 1914-20 (Pte. T. Kynoch. 1st. C.C.), very fine

Thomas Kynoch served with the 1st Battalion, Cape Corps, from 28 September 1916, including a short period in East Africa where he suffered from repeated bouts of malaria. A labourer by occupation, his service record can be best described as chequered, given repeated discipline indiscretions including drunkenness, breaking from hospital, being absent from parade, overstaying leave and being improperly dressed.

Embarking from Durban to Egypt on 3 April 1918 aboard H.M.T. Magdalena, he soon found himself in further trouble for losing Government property. This included three brushes, a shirt and a towel, for which he was ordered to pay half-value on 23 April 1918. In May 1918, Kynoch was awarded two days' field punishment for not complying with an order and in December 1918 he was fined 2/6d. for drunkenness and awarded 28 days' field punishment No 2. He was finally discharged at Durban and likely returned home to his wife Sarah, who was then living at Hart Street, Port Elizabeth; sold with copied service record.


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