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Auction: 1008 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 81

x A Scarce Gallipoli Casualty Group of Four to Lieutenant R.L. Dick, Australian Imperial Force, Wounded at the Gallipoli Landings, 25.4.1915, and Again at Lone Pine, 8.8.1915 Queen´s South Africa 1899-1902, three clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, South Africa 1902 (9370 Sapr. R. Dick. R.E.); 1914-15 Star (1109 Pte. R.L. Dick. 1/Bn. A.I.F.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R.L. Dick. A.I.F.), nearly extremely fine (4) Estimate £ 300-350 Lieutenant Robert Lamb Dick, born Edinburgh, March 1881; enlisted in the Royal Engineers, 31.7.1901; served in South Africa from 27.3.1902; discharged, 30.7.1913, after 12 years with the Colours; at the outbreak of the Great War enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force, 8.10.1914; promoted Corporal, 31.12.1914; served with the 1st Battalion in Gallipoli from 25.4.1915 (wounded during the period of the Landings, 25-29.4.1915); evacuated to Malta, 4.5.1915; rejoined 1st Battalion, 25.7.1915; wounded a second time at Lone Pine, 8.8.1915, and evacuated to Mudros; rejoined 1st Battalion, 14.9.1915; Sergeant, 14.12.1915; Company Quarter Master Sergeant, 4.3.1916; served on the Western Front from 25.6.1916, and present at the operations at Fromelles, the Somme, Hindenberg Line, Lagnicourt, and Polygon Wood; Warrant Officer Class II, 23.2.1917; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Australian Imperial Force, 1.5.1918; served on the Western Front with the 5th Pioneer Battalion from 11.5.1918, including operations at Hamel, Molancourt, Amiens, Mont St. Quentin, and Peronne; Lieutenant, 23.8.1918; retired, 12.5.1919.

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