A Vietnam pair awarded to Lance-Corporal J. L. Walker, Royal Australian Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, who was wounded and mentioned in despatches in Vietnam
Vietnam 1964, with M.I.D. oak leaf (6709400 J. L. Walker); South Vietnam Campaign Star, clasp, 1960-, named as before, good very fine (2)

M.I.D. Commonwealth Gazette 24 June, 1971. Sold with details taken from the official recommendation for the M.I.D.
John Lawrence Walker was a Tasmanian National Serviceman who enlisted into the Australian Army on 30 January, 1969. He was allotted to the Royal Australian Electrical Mechanical Engineers and joined the 1st Field Squadron Workshops in South Vietnam on 29 October, 1969. He was wounded in action at Phouc Tuy Province on 7 November, 1969, after his APC hit a land mine during operation ‘King’s Cross, in support of 5 R.A.R.