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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 421

(x) A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Lance-Corporal J. E. Hollywood, New Zealand Mounted Signal Troop and 6th Wellington Mounted Rifles

Military Medal, G.V.R. (11/1561 Sapr. J. E. Hollywood. N.Z. Mtd: Sig: Trp:); 1914-15 Star (11/1561 L/Cpl. J. E. Hollywood. N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (11/1561 L/Cpl. J. E. Hollywood. N.Z.E.F.); Coronation 1953, very fine (5)

M.M. London Gazette 21 October 1916. The Service Record also notes the date 31 August 1916.

John Edgar Hollywood was born at Thames on 9 October 1894, son of J. Hollywood, the Postmaster at Te Aroha. Living at Bellevista, Hamilton and a Telegraph Linesman by trade, he enlisted in the New Zealand Forces on 2 July 1915. Serving on Gallipoli and in Egypt, he saw one year and 198 days of deployment Overseas before being discharged on 27 March 1917, with a 'mention' in General Murray's Despatch of 13 October 1916 to go with the Military Medal he had already earned. Hollywood was discharged on account of a disorderly action of the heart, something the Medical Board adjudged to have been a pre-existing condition.

Hollywood was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the Lines of Communication, Home Guard on 19 April 1943 and died on 2 July 1964.

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Sold for
£2,900

Starting price
£450