Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 831 x

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£780

A Great War M.C. group of five awarded to Lieutenant J. S. Chisholm, Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F.

Military Cross
, G.V.R.; British War and Victory Medals (41206 Lieut., N.Z.E.F.); New Zealand Territorial 12 Years Service, G.V.R. (Lieut., M.C., R. of O. (Temp.) (1920)); New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal (Capt., Rtd. List), the third and fifth with unoffcial straight-bar suspension devices, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise generally very fine, together with three related Canterbury Regiment badges, one marked J. R. Gaunt, London (8) £600-800

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

Appointed a Lieutenant in May 1917, Chisholm served as a Transport Officer in the 2nd Battalion, Canterbury Regiment, N.Z.E.F.