Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Sergeant A. L. Matthews, 11th Australian Armoured Cavalry Regiment

Pacific Star; War Medal; Australia Service Medal, all officially impressed NX90566 A. L. Matthews)

Pair: Corporal M. J. Gilmore, Royal Australian Air Force

Vietnam 1964 (A56092 Gilmore, M.J.); South Vietnam Star, clasp ‘1960-’, named as before, mounted as worn, very fine or better (5) £200-250

Alik Leith Matthews was born on 28 October 1908, was a Master Tailor by profession and enlisted in New South Wales in February 1942. He served as a Sergeant in the 11th Armoured Cavalry Regiment and was discharged on 11 January 1946.

Michael John Gilmore was a Corporal Cook in the R.A.A.F., in which he served from 1964 to 1976, latterly based at R.A.A.F. Base Pearce, at Bullsbrook, north of Perth, Western Australia.