Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance-Corporal T. McHutchison, Australian Imperial Force, died of wounds 18 October 1917

British War and Victory Medals (713 T. Cpl.T. Mc Hutchison. 44-Bn. A.I.F.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas McHutchison) extremely fine (3) £160-200

Thomas McHutchison was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1883, and was educated at Barry, Forfarshire. He emigrated to Perth, Western Australia, in 1912, and enlisted in the 44th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force on 7 February 1916. Embarking at Fremantle on 6 June 1916, he arrived at Plymouth on 21 July of that year, and proceeded to France on 25 November 1916. Appointed Lance Corporal on 12 July 1917, he suffered a gun shot wound to the head on 4 October 1917, whilst going up Zonnebeke Ridge, Ypres Sector, and was taken back to a field hospital. Despite writing to his Commanding Officer on 10 October, saying that he was getting better, he was admitted to Wimereux Hospital in critical condition on 16 October, and succumbed to his wounds there on 18 October. He is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery, France. Of the 992 men from his battalion involved in the Ypres operations in the autumn of 1917, only 158 emerged unwounded when it was relieved on 21 October 1917.

Sold with named card box of issue for the Victory Medal, in envelope, together with Commonwealth of Australia enclosure.