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Auction: 22001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 114

Victory Medal 1914-19 (O. F. Paget.), minor contact wear, very fine

Owen Frank Paget was born at Cambridge on 17 February 1871, the son of Clara and Sir George Paget K.C.B., M.D. of 2 St. Peter's Terrace, Cambridge. His father was a noted physician and scholar and his career doubtless influenced Paget in his own choices. Educated at Temple Grove Grammar School, Charterhouse and later Cambridge University he emigrated to Australia in 1896, the same year he married Hilda Maude Carter. Returning to Britain in 1906 he trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital and qualified for his M.D. Working at Fremantle Hospital he enlisted with the French Red Cross as a Surgeon upon the outbreak of the Great War. Entering the war in France in June 1915 he served for the duration until it became possible for him to serve with the Australian Imperial Force which he attested for on 6 March 1918 with the rank of Captain. Paget suffered a severe fall on 13 May 1918 while crossing a railway line and fractured his left fibula, it is noted that he was still able to walk with the aid of a stick. Returning to Western Australia he died in Perth, Western Australia in 1953; sold together with copied research including attestation records, biographical notes and medal rolls and well as education records and M.I.C.

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