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22 July 2016

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Lot

№ 655

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22 July 2016

Hammer Price:
£100

New Zealand Territorial Service Medal, G.V.R. (Lt. F. R. Husband, N.Z. Corps Sigs.) good very fine £100-140

Frederick Ritchie Husband was born at Taranaki in January 1895, and attested for the Waikato Mounted Rifles, 1 June 1914. He served during the Great War with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the specialist Signalling Section from 26 June 1916, serving overseas from November 1916 until May 1919. Discharged in June 1919, he transferred to the Territorial Reserve, and was advanced to Company Sergeant Major, Northern Depot, NZ Corps of Signals, before receiving a commission as Second Lieutenant in July 1933. He was awarded the New Zealand Territorial Service Medal in September 1935, and subsequently served during the Second World War, rising to the rank of Major, before he transferred to the Reserve of Officers, 9 February 1944. In later life he owned a farm at Raglan, near Auckland, and died at Thames, 13 April 1969.