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24 & 25 February 2016

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Lot

№ 343

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24 February 2016

Hammer Price:
£300

Seven: Major A. E. Prytz, Australian Army Medical Corps (Dental Service)

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Australia Service Medal, all officially impressed (VX205 A. E. Prytz); Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Australia, reverse inscribed, ‘VX205 Maj. A. E. Prytz A.I.F.’; together with a similar mounted group of miniature dress medals (E.D. with G.V.R. cypher), full-size medals nearly extremely fine (14) £140-180

Arthur Eaton Prytz was born in Hawthorn, Victoria on 13 October 1904. A qualified Dentist, with the degrees of L.D.S. and B.D.Sc. Lieutenant in the Melbourne University Regiment, July 1924. With the 14th battalion, December 1927, promoted to Captain in October 1928. Transferred to the Reserve of Officers, February 1933. Enlisted at Melbourne into the Australian Imperial Force - serving with the Australian Army Medical Corps (Dental Service) on 14 November 1939 - allocated to the 6th Division, then 2/1st Casualty Clearing Station as Captain (Dentist). Embarked for the Middle East, April 1940. Attached to the 2/2nd Field Regiment of Artillery, November-December 1940. Promoted to Major in May 1941. To the 3rd Convalescent Depot, Dimla, Palestine, April 1941; the 2nd Australian General Hospital, June 1941 and to the 1st Convalescent Depot, October 1941. Returned to Australia in March 1942. With the 121st Australian General Hospital, July 1942 and the 115th Military Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, May 1943. Embarked from Sydney per ‘Gorgon’ for operations Morotai, 3 May 1945, with 2/9th Australian General Hospital, returning to Australia in February 1946. Discharged on 3 April 1946. Major Prytz, formerly married to Pauline Marie Prytz, of Armadale, Victoria, married for a second time in 1949 to Mavis Amy Bryse. He died 19 May 1975.

With original named W.W.2 medal forwarding slip; also with copied research, including a modern photograph of the headstones of he and his wife’s graves. With riband bar.

For the medals of his wife - Captain Mavis Amy Bryse, see lot 35.