Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Seven: Major J. Stobo, Southland Regiment, New Zealand Forces

War Medal 1939-45; New Zealand War Service Medal; Jubilee 1935, unnamed as issued; Coronation 1953, unnamed as issued; Efficiency Decoration, G.V.R., New Zealand, reverse inscribed ‘Maj. J. Stobo, Southland Rgt.’; New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, 2nd issue, by White (Maj. J. Stobo. Southland Rgt.); New Zealand Territorial Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd issue by Wright (Maj. J. Stobo. Southland Rgt.) lacquered, nearly extremely fine (7) £600-£800

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of David Lloyd.

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Provenance: John Tamplin Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, March 2009.

James Stobo was born in New Zealand on 11 December 1891 and was educated at Southland Boys’ High School and Otago University, before becoming a Schoolmaster at his old school at Southland. On 8 April 1915 he was appointed a Second Lieutenant on the Unattached List, Territorial Force, and served with the Cadet Corps at Southland School. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 1 July 1919; Captain of ‘B’ Company, 1st Southland Regiment, on 27 October 1923; and Major on 21 November 1925. During the Great War he applied to join the N.Z.E.F. but was declared as ‘medically fit but rejected’. For his long service he was awarded the New Zealand Territorial Service Medal (G.O. 192 of June 1927), the New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (G.O. 163 of June 1931), and the Efficiency Decoration (New Zealand) (G.O. 169 of June 1935). He was awarded the Jubilee Medal 1935 as Major in the 1st Cadet Battalion, Southland Regiment. During the Second World War he served as Major in the 1st Southland Regiment, February to May 1943. He was posted on the Retired List on 29 May 1956.

Sold with copied research and a photograph of the recipient in Masonic regalia.