Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Staff Sergeant C. M. Walker, Australian Army Pay Corps
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Australia Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘WX1688 C. M. Walker’, very fine

Three: Staff Sergeant V. H. Youlden, South African Pay Corps
Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, all officially impressed ‘172839 V. H. Youlden’, very fine

Three: Warrant Officer 2nd Class D. A. C. McCallum, South African Pay Corps
War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, both officially impressed ‘143661 D. A. C. McCallum’; Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 1st (bilingual) issue, Union of South Africa (W.O.2 D. A. C. McCallum S.A.P.C.) very fine (9) £80-£100

Vere Herbert Youlden was born in Pretoria on 30 April 1903 and was taken on strength of the S.A.P.C. on 1 November 1940. Sent to C.P.O. Barberton, he was raised Sergeant 12 December 1940 and sent to Headquarters, Impala House. Transferred to the High Commission in London in August 1944, Youlden later served on special duty with the Swiss Clearing House, London, until 11 January 1945. Returned to Pretoria in August 1945, he was discharged on 27 January 1946.

Clifford Montgomery Walker was born in Perth, Western Australia, on 10 August 1914. He enlisted at Swan Barracks, Perth, on 19 February 1940 and was detached to A.A.P.C. Western Command Headquarters 5 March 1940. Disembarked at Kantara, Egypt, he transferred to Headquarters A.I.F. (Middle East) at Gaza on 15 August 1940, and later served with the 1st Australian Corps Cash Office from 27 January 1942. Returned home to Australia in the late spring of 1942, Walker was posted to District Accounts (Queensland) on 5 August 1943 and was discharged 15 September 1945.

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