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Auction: 25111 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 646

(x) Pair: Private J. A. Beck, 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (Airborne)

Australian Service Medal 1945-75, 1 clasp, East Timor (2811439 J A Beck); Interfet Medal 1999-2000 (2811439 J. A. Beck), sold together with an infantry combat badge and cloth para 'wings', nearly extremely fine and scarce (2)

Joel Alderson Beck was born on 27 February 1979 and enlisted at Sydney on 25 March 1997. Posted to the 3rd Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment (Airborne) he saw service with the International Force East Timor.

Following the vote on self-determination of 30 August 1999, there were a series of attacks throughout Timor by militias created, trained and directed by the Indonesian military. The International Force East Timor (INTERFET) was the United Nations-mandated multinational force formed to address the deteriorating humanitarian and security situation.

INTERFET troops entered Timor in September 1999 under the command of Australian Defence Force officer Major-General Peter Cosgrove, before the handover to the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) in March 2000.

The ADF component of INTERFET was named Operation Stabilise – an operation that was a major turning in transforming Australian policy on intervention in neighbouring states, and a precursor to other ADF operations in Solomon Islands and Tonga.

Beck was discharged on 8 April 2001, sold together with copied research and a handwritten note stating that the medals were purchased from the recipient on 1 February 2006.

Further entitled to the Australian Defence Medal.

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£450

Starting price
£140