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12 November 2020

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№ 291

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12 November 2020

Hammer Price:
£280

Pair: Corporal H. F. Habner, 25th Machine Gun Company, Australian Imperial Force

British War and Victory Medals (419 Cpl. H. F. Habner. 25 MG. Coy. A.I.F.) together with two gold tribute medals, the first shield shaped with monogram HFH, the reverse inscribed ‘For duty bravely done - from Y.K.S.’; the second circular, inscribed within a wreath ‘Cpl. H. F. Habner, 5th Machine Gun Coy’, the reverse inscribed ‘In Recognition of 3 Years Active Service Abroad in the Great World War 1914-1919 from Dublin Friends’, both marked 9-carat and with small rings for suspension, nearly extremely fine (4) £200-£260

Harold Frederick Habner was born at Dublin, South Australia, and enlisted into the 8th M.G. Coy. at Adelaide, South Australia, on 3 June 1916, aged 28 years 9 months, a packer by trade. He embarked at Melbourne per the T.S. Port Lincoln on 20 October 1916. In England he was transferred to 5th Division M.G. Coy. and proceeded overseas to France on 7 September 1917.