| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 2792 Price realized: 900 AUD (Approx. 591 USD / 541 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Trio to WIA at Gallipoli: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 609 C/Sjt G.L.R.Foote. 13/Bn. A.I.F. on first medal, 2/Lieut G.L.R.Foote A.I.F. on second medal, and 2-Lieut. G.L.R.Foote A.I.F. on last medal. All medals impressed. Display mounted some spotty toning on first medal, otherwise fine - very fine. Together with Anzac Commemorative Medallion 1915, issued 1967, in bronze (50x75mm) (C.1915/3) engraved, 'G.L.R.Foote', in case of issue; also Anzac Commemorative Medallion 1915 lapel badge, issued in 1967, in bronze, double lug back, reverse engraved, 'G.L.R.Foote'. Gerard Laurence Robert Foote, electrical fitter, age 18, born at Petersham, Sydney, NSW; Enl.04sep1914 at Rosehill, Sydney, NSW, in 13Bn, with previous service of 5 years in Commonwealth Forces; Emb.22Dec1914; to Sgt 01Oct1914, to Coy Sgt Mjr 15Dec1914; WIA 07May1915 GSW to head (serious), Gallipoli; to 2/Lieut 14May1915 and then Lieut; RTA 19Oct1915 as invalid; Disch.28Apr1916 Medically Unfit. With part copy of Service File. Estimate: 700 AUD |  |
Match 1:
| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 2797 Price realized: 180 AUD (Approx. 118 USD / 108 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Trio to WIA at Gallipoli: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 1375 L.V.Lawton. The first medal engraved and the other two medals impressed. Swing mounted, some contact marks on the last two medals, the condition and the style of naming that does not show unit or AIF on these medals suggests that they are replacements or modern issues, otherwise extremely fine. Leonard Victor Lawton, carrier driver, age 19, born at Brunswick, Melbourne, Vic; Enl.02Nov1914 at Melbourne, Vic in 2Rfts 7Bn; Emb.02Feb1915; trf to 5Bn 04Apr1915; to Gallipoli 05Apr1915; WIA 04May1915 GSW to chest, arm and side at Gallipoli; to hospital at Heliopolis 23May1915; RTA 12Apr1916 for change with fractured metatarsal; Disch.08Aug1916 Medically Unfit. Estimate: 150 AUD |
Match 2:
| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 2779 Price realized: 8,000 AUD (Approx. 5,251 USD / 4,806 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: DSO, MID (3 times) and VD Group of Six to AAMC: Distinguished Service Service Order (GVR); 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19 with MID; War Medal 1939-45; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Officers' Decoration (GRI) (with substitute top brooch bar missing pin). First medal unnamed, Captain H.V.P.Conrick. A.M.C. A.I.F. on second medal, Lieut-Col. H.V.P.Conrick. A.I.F. on third medal, Lt-Colonel H.V.P.Conrick. A.I.F. on fourth medal, H.V.P.Conrick. M.N. Surgeon on fifth medal, Lt.Col. H.V.P.Conrick. D.S.O., U.L. on last medal. Last medal engraved, all other named medals impressed. Display mounted, together with hat and collar badges of AAMC (KC), very fine. Ex Dix Noonan Webb Sale 5 November 1991 (lot 267). DSO: Supplement to LG 18/7/1917, p7214; CAG 8/11/1917, p2938, to Maj. Horatio Victor Patrick Conrick, A.A.M.C. Recommendation: Major H.V.P.Conrick 7th Australian Field Ambulance. On the evening of May 6th 1917 near Noreuil a wagon loaded with explosives was being taken forward. This wagon was hit and a huge explosion took place, drawing heavy enemy shell fire on to the spot. A man rushed to Major Conrick for assistance and reported that a hundred men had been killed or wounded by the explosion. Major Conrick immediately collected bearers and led them to the scene of the accident. He personally attended to the wounded and directed the bearers in the open under heavy shell fire until all the wounded had been safely removed. Another report of Major Conrick's service reads as follows, 'During the severe fighting near Bullecourt Major Conrick was in charge of the Advanced Collecting Post near Noreuil from the 4th to 9th of May 1917. He continually moved from Post to Post under intense fire encouraging the men and arranging the relief for the bearers when exhausted. It was due to his efforts that the evacuation of wounded was rapidly and successfully carried on during the above days. This officer was in the first Australian Expeditionary Force and has served with the A.I.F. throughout the Gallipoli and French campaigns. He has, at all times, been characterised by his good work under all circumstances.' MID: (1st) LG 28/1/1916, p1209; CAG 6/4/1916, p862 - I have the honour to submit herewith the name of Captain H.V.P.Conrick, 3rd Field Ambulance, whose services I wish to bring to your lordship's notice in connexion with the operations described in my despatch of 11th December, 1915. (2nd) LG 13/7/1916, p6955; CAG 30/11/1916, p3234 - With reference to the despatch published on the 10th April, the following are mentioned for distinguished and gallant services rendered during the period of General Sir Charles Munro's Command of the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force :- Major Horatio Victor Patrick Conrick. (3rd) LG 28/12/1917, p13568; CAG 18/4/1918, p845 - The following is a continuation of Sir Douglas Haig's Despatch of the 7th November, submitting names deserving special mention, published in a supplement to the "London Gazette" of Friday, 28th December, 1917 :- Major (temporary Lieutenant-Colonel) H.V.P.Conrick, D.S.O. CAFOD (VD): CAG No.58 16/7/1931 to Lt-Col H.V.P.Conrick DSO, Unattached List, 2nd MD. This decoration was presented to Lt-Colonel Conrick DSO, VD by His Excellency the Governor General at his office in the Commonwealth Bank Chambers, Martin Place, Sydney on Monday 14 March 1932. Horatio Victor Patrick Conrick (1882-1960), born 27May1882 at Fitzroy, Melbourne and educated at the Christian Brothers' School, St Kilda; started working as a bank clerk before studying medicine at the University of Melbourne (M.B., B.S., 1910); appointed Resident Medical Officer at Mater Misericordiae Hospital, Brisbane; 02Feb1914 commissioned Captain in AAMC, Citizen Forces; 20Aug1914 appointed to A.I.F. and posted to the 3rd Field Ambulance, AAMC; Emb.25Sep1914; served throughout the Gallipoli Campaign and was awarded a mentioned in dispatch in 1916 for his services as detailed in a dispatch in December 1915; appointed to 2nd AGH in Egypt Jan1916; promoted to Major 06Feb1916; transferred to the 3rd Australian Auxiliary Hospital and left for the Western Front in April; served as medical officer-in-charge, Anzac Base Details, and then attached to the Aust Vol Hosp in July; for the rest of 1916 held appointments with 2nd AGH and 5th and 7th Field Ambulances; serving with the latter unit when his award of the Distinguished Service Order was gazetted in July 1917; later that year he served with the 1st and 15th Field Ambulances, the 10th Casualty Clearing Station and the 24 Bn; appointed Temporary Lieut-Colonel and Senior Medical Officer at the 2nd Command Convalescent Depot in November and was again mentioned in dispatches; 03Apr to 24May1918 commanded 8th Field Ambulance; rank confirmed on 01May1918; RTA Jun1918 and appt terminated 14Aug1918; no record of WWII Merchant Navy service as surgeon found. On 12Sep1918, Conrick married Mary Frances Punch at St Mary's Catholic Church, North Sydney; they settled at North Sydney and he resumed medical practice concentrating on children's medicine; held appointments at Sydney's Renwick Hospital for Infants at Summer Hill from 1922 and was honorary consulting surgeon there from 1957 until his death; from the late 1940s he was Honorary Assistant Physician at the Mater Misericordiae Hospital for women and children at Crows Nest and for several years was New South Wales representative on the council of the British Medical Association; remained on reserves with AAMC until 1943 when he was placed on the retired list with the rank of Lt-Colonel; Horatio Conrick died on 18 July 1960 and was buried in the Catholic section of Gore Hill Cemetery; In the Gore Hill Cemetery Biographies Volume 1, p219 it states that Conrick was the officiating officer at the burial service of Simpson Kirkpatrick, who was immortalised as "the donkey man" and 'Simpson and his donkey". On April 28th, 1915, Capt. Conrick, AAMC, landed on Gallipoli with the 3rd Field Ambulance. The soldier to become known as 'Simpson, the Donkey Man' was one of his stretcher bearers. Shortly before his death in 1960, Conrick wrote with first hand knowledge of this brave and remarkable Australian soldier and his personal recollections were brought into the public domain by his daughter, Mrs Mary Rayward of Dee Why. In one part of these recollections Conrick wrote, 'Simpson was a very game man and in fact, he laughed at danger. At all times he was cheerful and a great favourite with his mates of the 3rd Field Ambulance. On one occasion I passed him in Monash Gully and called out to him, 'Look out for yourself Simmy.' His laughing reply came, 'That bullet hasn't been made for me yet, sir.' When our C.O., Colonel Alfred Sutton, a good soldier and sensible man, came ashore at Anzac about one week after the landing, we reported to him the type of work Simpson was doing, detached from the Ambulance. He replied he was quite agreeable he should continue, as his was an exceptional case, the only stipulation being that he should report at intervals to H.Q. Simpson came to us at times for rations, but more often he was fed by the Indian Mountain Battery and Jacobs Mule Train, who were camped near Monash Gully. They greatly admired him and would have given him anything. After his death, these Indians took charge of his donkey, fed it and looked after it. Their Medical Officer, Capt. Casey Evans (afterwards Sir Casey Evans) told me that he enquired of some of them if they would not lose caste by handling a donkey. They replied, 'What matter, sahib, it is the donkey of a Bahadur - a hero.' We buried Simpson in the cemetery on Brighton Beach, close to 'Hell-fire Corner,' a spot he had passed hundreds of times in his brave journeyings.' With a large file of research and photos. Estimate: 10000 AUD |  |
Match 3:
| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 2796 Price realized: 650 AUD (Approx. 427 USD / 391 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Trio: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 1616 Pte S.C.Hull. 27/Bn. A.I.F. on first medal, Lieut. S.C.Hull. A.I.F. on last two medals. All medals impressed. Display mounted, small oxidation spot on last medal, otherwise good very fine. Awarded MM: LG 22/1/1917, p836; CAG 29/6/1917, p1395 - to 1616 Corporal Stewart Cossey Hull, 27 Aust Infy Bn for bravery in the Field. Recommendation: On evening of 5th Nov. 1916 during retirement from Bayonet Trench he stayed behind at Right end of the trench & covered the retirement of the men with a Lewis gun. He was seen to put two enemy m/guns out of action also the gunners. He blew up his own gun with a Mills grenade as he was too exhausted to get it out of the trench. He returned alone after midnight. The Military Medal presented to Stewart Hull in June 1917 was posted by him by registered mail to Australia. The ship on which the mail was sent was the P. & O. liner S.S. Mongolia that Hull claimed was sunk by the enemy soon after leaving England. The ship struck a mine on 23 June 1917 and sank off the coast of India. Some survivors were saved from the sinking ship but it was not possible to save the mail. Hull was advised in 1920 that he would need to lodge a Statutory Declaration and also pay some money to have the medal replaced. There is no record in his Service File that this ever happened. Stewart Cossey Hull, traveller, age 23 born at Unley, Sth Aust; Enl.01May1915 at Keswick, St Aust, with previous service in 16ALH; Emb.31May1915 with Rfts for 27Bn; to Gallipoli 04Sep1915; to France 16Mar1916; to Cpl 01Apr1916; to Sgt 03Dec1916; to 1 Anzac Corps School 21Jul1917; TOS 27Bn 01Feb1918; to 2/Lt 02Jan1919; to Lieut 02Apr1919; RTA 02Aug1919; Appt terminated 17Nov1919. With copy of Service File and other research. Estimate: 750 AUD |  |
Match 4:
| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 2780 Price realized: 1,200 AUD (Approx. 788 USD / 721 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Group of Four to KIA: Military Cross (GVR) with bar; 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19 with MID. 17 L/Cpl F.W.Goodwin 8/BN A.I.F. on second medal, Lieut F.W.Goodwin A.I.F. on remaining two medals. First medal unnamed, second and fourth medals renamed and engraved, third medal impressed. The first medal appears to be a contemporary copy, very fine. Together with identity disc named to '17/Goodwin F.W./8.A.I.' on chain. MID: LG 28/1/1916, p1208; CAG 06/4/1916, p862, to 17 Sergeant F.W.Goodwin 8Bn. MC: LG 22/9/1916, p9286; CAG 14/12/1916, p3382, to 17 Regimental Sergeant-Major Frank Willie Goodwin. Citation: 'For conspicuous gallantry during protracted operations. He led a patrol forward, gaining valuable information, supervised supplies for the front line, and worked without ceasing for three days and nights in the removal of the wounded under heavy fire.' (Recommended for VC but awarded Bar to MC) Bar to MC: LG 14/11/1916, p11084; CAG 19/4/1917, p922, to 2nd Lieutenant Francis William (sic) Goodwin MC. Recommendation: At Pozieres, France on night of 18th August 1916 after the third attack on enemy trench between Munster Alley and Tramline, our line had fallen back on its original trench, 2/Lieut. Goodwin brought in a badly wounded man and then returned to assist others. Whilst dressing a wounded man a shell burst killing this man and knocking Goodwin out for half an hour; in spite of this when he came to his senses he brought in two others. All this time the enemy kept up a constant fire from Machine Guns and Artillery. On the next day, 19th, he observed one of our men, No.3495, Pte. G.H.Groves, lying wounded close to enemy parapet, and at night accompanied by Lieut. Mummery went to the spot which was within 5 yards of the enemy trench. Lieut. Mummery placed the man on Goodwin's back and they started off but were observed by the enemy who poured in a rain of bullets. However both officers brought this man safely across the 150 yards space between trenches which was swept by machine gun and artillery fire. In addition this officer did invaluable work in supervising the rationing of the men in the front line and getting the wounded down to the Dressing Station. He was also recommended for a DCM, 31Jul1916; Russian Cross of St George 27Aug1916; VC 27Aug1916; MM (undated). Francis Willie Goodwin, farmer, age 26yrs, born Colwall, UK; Enl.28Aug1914 at Broadmeadows, Vic; Emb.19Oct1914 Melbourne; WIA 25Apr1915 Anzac landing day at Gallipoli, GSW leg; promoted Cpl 04Aug1915; Sgt 13Aug1915; Comp Sgt Mjr 20Nov1915; Regt Sgt Mjr 10Feb1916; appointed 2nd Lieut 05 Aug1916; promoted Lieut 21Feb1917; KIA 04Oct1917 by a burst of M.G. bullets near Zonnebeke, Belgium; Commemorated Hooge Crater Cemetery Belgium. With extensive research including copy of Service Record, photographs, photocopy extract from 'Cobbers in Khaki - History of the 8th Battalion 1914-18'. Estimate: 1200 AUD |
Match 5:
| Noble Numismatics Pty Ltd > Auction 134 | Auction date: 21 November 2023 |
| Lot number: 2800 Price realized: 260 AUD (Approx. 171 USD / 156 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Trio: 1914-15 Star; British War Medal 1914-18; Victory Medal 1914-19. 1963 Pte S.E.G.Morton. 10/Bn. A.I.F. on first medal, 1963 A/Sjt S.E.G.Morton 18 Bn. A.I.F. on second medal, 1963 A-Sgt. S.E.G.Morton. 18 Bn. A.I.F. on last medal. All medals impressed. Court mounted, contact marks, otherwise good fine - very fine. Stanley Edward Gordon Morton, Monitor with Telephone Dept, age 27, born at Sydney, NSW; Enl.15Jun1915 at Liverpool, Sydney, NSW, in 3Rfts for 18Bn, with previous service in Junior Cadets; Emb.09Aug1915; TOS 18Bn 11Oct1915 at Gallipoli; to France 18Mar1916; to hospital sick 02Jan to 09Mar1917 with haemorrhoids and N.Y.D. heart and V.D.H.; to L/Cpl 28Jun1917; to 17th Course of Instruction at Army Sig School 22Nov1917 to 24Jan1918 and qualified as 1st Class; trf to Engrs Sig Details 01Nov1918; trf to Admin HQ 26Nov1918; to T/Cpl 23Jan1919; to A/Sgt 28May1919; RTA 15Nov1919; Disch.08Apr1920; Died 03Jun1956. Estimate: 300 AUD |
