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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 289

(x) Victory Medal 1914-19 (5044 Pte. H. G. Adams 11 Bn. A.I.F.), good fine

Herbert Gerald Adams was born at Quindalup, Western Australia, and enlisted at Blackboy Hill on 4 February 1916. He embarked from Freemantle aboard H.M.A.T. Shropshire on 31 March 1916 and initially served with the Mediterranean Expeditionary force, suffering twice from sickness, including orchitis and influenza. Transferring to the Western Front, he was wounded in action on 22 September 1917, and evacuated to England aboard the St. Denis. He died five days later at the Norfolk and Norwich Hospital, the result of a gunshot wound to his right side and subsequent infection, and is buried at Norwich Cemetery; sold with copied research.

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