59th Infantry Battalion The Hume Regiment 53mm enamel and brass Hat Badge (slight chips) 1930-42 Period Badges Tourmaline

Tourmaline

We loaded our rifles just before daylight and were partly dug in on hill 303 at 4pm…

from 13 October 1942 transferring to the 25th Australian War Graves Unit 29th June 1945 to Rangoon and the Pacific region 1 September 1945 which qualified him for the BURMA CLASP an extremely rare award to the Australian Army (the only example I have seen)

British War Medal

WIA Gallipoli 2nd May 1915 “Gunshot wound left chest penetrating lung”

59th Infantry Battalion The Hume Regiment 53mm enamel and brass Hat Badge (slight chips) 1930-42 Period Badges TourmalineC300 59th Infantry Battalion The Hume Regiment 53mm enamel and brass Hat Badge (slight chips)