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Auction: 22102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction VI - e-Auction
Lot: 483

A 1918 M.M. awarded to Lance-Corporal H. A. Johnson, 5th Australian Light Horse, later wounded in action on 19 April 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (876 L.Cpl H. A. Johnson: 5/Austr:L.H.R.), overall contact wear, very fine

M.M. London Gazette 2 April 1918

Harold Ambrose Johnson was born at Sandford, Essex in 1891, moving to Australia before the Great War he enlisted with the Australian Imperial Force on 24 December 1914. Joining the 5th (Australian) Light Horse as part of the 4th Reinforcements at Gallipoli on 25 May 1915 Johnson was invalided to Hospital on 24 November of that same year with Cellulitis and transported to Tigne Hospital on Malta.

Transferred to All Saints Camp, Malta on 14 December he was discharged by 20 December, too late to re-join the campaign at Gallipoli. Travelling instead to Egypt he disembarked to Alexandria on 26 December 1915 and marched with his regiment to Maadi, falling ill again here he was admitted to Hospital, this time with Appendicitis and taken to 31 General Hospital at Port Said on 10 June 1916. Re-joining his unit at Dueidar on 12 December 1916.

Promoted Lance Corporal the month after the regiment was involved in the Second Battle of Gaza on 14 May 1917. He was awarded the Military Medal for his actions on 30 November 1917 when the Regiment was pursuing the retreating Ottoman forces after the Third Battle of Gaza. Wounded on 19 April 1918 in the foot and the right buttock, Johnson was admitted to 14th Army General Hospital on 25 May 1918. Embarked on 12 July 1918 he was returned to Australia for discharge; sold together with copied medical records, Regiment War Diary and Attestation.

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Sold for
£2,300

Starting price
£320