Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Sergeant-Major J. R. McCardell, New Zealand Field Artillery (N.Z.E.F.)

1914-15 Star (15/68 S./M. J. R. McCardell, N.Z.E.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (15/68 Sjt./Mjr. J. R. McCardell, N.Z.E.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (15/68 S.M. J. R. McCardell, N.Z.E.F.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R. (15-68 S. Sjt. J. R. McCardell, N.Z.F.A.); New Zealand Territorial Services 12 Years Service, G.V.R. (Dr. J. R. McCardell, (Reserve) N.Z.F.A. (1919)), number and rank officially corrected on the fourth, officially re-engraved naming and refixed suspension claw on the last, contact marks and polished, thus good fine (5) £320-360

Joseph Rohan McCardell was born in Wellington, New Zealand in March 1892 and enrolled in ‘D’ Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery in October 1910. Attesting for service in the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in August 1914, he was embarked for Egypt at the year’s end on attachment Divisional Headquarters and would appear to have remained similarly employed in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force 1916-18. He was advanced to Battery Sergeant-Major in September 1917 and was awarded the M.S.M. ‘for valuable services rendered with the armies in the Field’ in December 1918. McCardell took his discharge in February 1919 and received his New Zealand Territorial Long Service Medal in February 1920; sold with copied N.Z. attestation and service papers.