Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private R. H. Dempster, 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force

1914-15 Star (1061 Pte., 5/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (1061 Pte., 5/Bn. A.I.F.), very fine or better (3) £100-120

Raymond Harvey Dempster enlisted in the 5th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force at Broadmeadow, Victoria in September 1914, aged 33 years, stating that he had previous service of six years in the Royal Australian Artillery. Embarked for Gallipoli, where he served from April 1915, he was admitted to hospital in Mudros that September, suffering from pleurisy and influenza. Later moved to Egypt, he was invalided home in April 1916 and discharged on his return.