Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Warrant Officer Class 1 E. R. Norrie, New Zealand Medical Corps, wounded at Gallipoli, 3 June 1915 and awarded the M.S.M.

1914-15 Star (3/145 W.O. 1, N.Z.E.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3/145 W.O.1, N.Z.E.F.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (3-145 S.S. Mjr., N.Z.M.C.); together with an unnamed Victory Medal 1914-19, nearly extremely fine (4) £400-500

M.S.M. London Gazette 3 June 1919. ‘... in recognition of valuable services rendered in connection with the war.’

Edwin Roland Norrie was born on 4 November 1892. Living in Wellington and a Clerk in the Justice Department, and also a member of the 4th Field Ambulance, he attested for the N.Z.E.F. on 14 August 1914. Serving in Gallipoli with a Field Ambulance, he was wounded at Kaba Tepe on 3 June 1915 - suffering a bullet wound to the right hand. He was invalided to Malta and then to England but recovered sufficiently to return to the Dardanelles in August 1915. Norrie was posted to Alexandria in December 1915 and then to France in April 1916, being advanced to Staff Sergeant in May 1916 and Quartermaster Sergeant in March 1917. In December 1917 he was posted to England and promoted to Warrant Officer 1st Class serving at the No. 2 New Zealand General Hospital, Walton. Norrie died on 27 April 1922. For his wartime services he was awarded the M.S.M.

With copied gazette extracts and service papers.