Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private J. H. Hyland, 8th Battalion, Australian Imperial Forces, who served at Gallipoli and was wounded at Passchendaele, 4 October 1917, and again at Amiens, 28 March 1918

1914-15 Star (1470 Pte. J. H. Hyland. 8/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (1550 Pte. J. H. Hyland. 8 Bn. A.I.F.) nearly very fine £100-140

James Henry Hyland was born in Carlton, Victoria, in 1888 and attested for the Australian Imperial Force in Melbourne on 13 November 1914. He embarked for the Middle East at Melbourne on 25 February 1915, and served in the Gallipoli theatre of War with the 8th Battalion from 8 May 1915. He was reported ‘Missing in action’ on that first day, but subsequently re-joined his unit. He was evacuated to Mudros sick on 22 September 1915, and was then evacuated to the U.K. He re-joined his unit on the Western Front on 20 September 1916, and took part in operations near Armentieres. After another spell in hospital in the U.K. caused by sickness he again returned to his unit on 10 August 1917, and was wounded in action near Passchendaele on 4 October 1917, and was admitted to the Australian General Hospital at Boulogne. Returning to his unit on 31 October 1917, he suffered a fractured hand on 28 November 1917 and, after recuperating in Paris, was again wounded in action near Amiens on 28 March 1918 with shrapnel to the arms and back. Evacuated to the U.K. for a third time, he embarked for Australia at Plymouth on 31 July 1918, and arrived back home in Melbourne on 28 September 1918. He was discharged as medically unfit on 8 November 1918, just three days before the Armistice, and died on 21 July 1949.

Sold with the recipient’s A.I.F. ‘Returned from Active Service’ Badge; two identity tags; and copied service papers.