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Three: Able Seaman W. J. Glover, Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy
British War and Victory Medals (190183 A.B., R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (190183 A.B., H.M.A.S. Australia) impressed naming, good very fine (3) £200-250
H.M.S. Australia was a battlecruiser paid for by the Dominion of Australia, built by J. Brown & Co., launched in October 1911 and completed in June 1913. During the early part of the war she served in the Pacific operating against the German East Asia Squadron and other German assets. Later with the Grand Fleet, she missed the battle of Jutland, being repaired following a collision with her sister ship H.M.S. New Zealand. She became the flagship of the Royal Australian Navy in 1919 and was scuttled off Sydney as part of the obligations of the Washington Naval Treaty in 1924.
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