1939-45 Star; Africa Star, 1 clasp, 1st Army; Defence Medal (2), one a Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45 (2); India Service Medal; New Zealand War Service Medal; Australia Service Medal (VX52237 J. Carew); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; Pakistan Independence Medal 1947 (Allah Ditta F. C. 1164); Pakistan Republic Medal 1956, unnamed as issued; France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-18, scratches to obverse of India Service Medal, generally very fine and better (14) £70-£90

James Carew was born in Kiama, Victoria, on 4 March 1920. He attested for the Australian Infantry at Royal Park (Melbourne) on 27 March 1941 and disembarked at Port Moresby with the 2/14th Battalion on 5 September 1942. Wounded in action on 30 November 1942, his Service Record notes a gunshot wound to the shoulder and hand. It also notes that he spent the next two years repeatedly going A.W.O.L., on one occasion stating: ‘disappeared whilst living in a boarding house.’

Sold with a small selection of used banknotes, including ones issued by the Bank of England, Government of India, Government of Ceylon, Government of Malta, Board of Commissions of Currency Malaya, and Government of Hong Kong