Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Sergeant J. Green, 12th Australian Army Service Corps, Australian Imperial Force, later Australian Prevost Corps, who was awarded the Romanian Medal for Valour and Loyalty

1914-15 Star (5079 Dvr. J. Green. 12 A.S.C. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (5079 Sgt. J. Green 12 A.S.C. A.I.F.); Romania, Kingdom, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Second Class, with crossed swords, silvered-bronze, unnamed as issued, cross swords suspension sprung on right hand side; together with the recipient’s A.N.Z.A.C. Commemorative Medallion, bronze, 75mm x 50mm, obverse scene depicting Private John Simpson Kirkpatrick, 3rd Field Ambulance, A.I.F., with donkey, with the legend ‘1915 ANZAC’, reverse with an outline of Australia and New Zealand, with the ‘Southern Cross’, medal named to ‘J. Green’, in its fitted case of issue, good very fine (5) £300-£400

Romanian Medal for Valour and Loyalty, First Class London Gazette 20 September 1919:
‘For distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.’

Joseph Green was born in Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1893 and having emigrated to Australia joined the Australian Imperial Force in November 1914. He served as a Driver with the 12th Australian Army Service Corps in Gallipoli and later Palestine, and subsequently served as a Sergeant with the Australian Prevost Corps.