Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Gunner T. D. Craig, Australian Artillery

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star, these officially engraved, ‘VX53986 T. D. Craig’; Defence and War Medals; Australian Service Medal, these officially impressed (VX53986 T. D. Craig) good very fine and better (5) £50-70

Thomas David Craig was born in Brunswick, Victoria on 3 October 1915. A Clerk by occupation, he enlisted in the A.I.F. at Royal Park on 23 April 1941 and was posted to the 2nd Field Training Regiment of Artillery at Puckapunyal. Posted to the 2/8th Field Regiment Reinforcements in May 1941, he embarked at Sydney for the Middle East on 3 September 1941. Disembarking at Suez on 23 September 1941 he served with the 2/8th Field Regiment in Palestine, October 1941 and with the 2/2nd Field Regiment at Khassa in November and was in Syria in January 1942. Embarked at Suez for garrison duty on Ceylon on 10 March 1942 and disembarked at Melbourne in August 1942. Sick with a hernia at Puckapunyal, September-December 1942, then posted to camp Queensland, 23 July 1943. Attached to the Chemical Warfare Experimental School, North Queensland, 5-28 December 1943. Posted to the 2/5th Infantry Battalion in May 1944 and to the 2/1st Field Regiment in October 1944. In January 1945 he served in New Guinea against the Japanese in the advance to Wewak. Posted to 2/2nd Field Regiment in October 1945, he embarked at Wewak for Brisbane on 1 December 1945 and was discharged at Royal Park on 2 May 1946.

With copied research.