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Auction: 25113 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 456

(x) Three: Staff Sergeant J.S. Duncan, Royal Australian Corps of Signals, late 19th Battalion Australian Imperial Force, who was wounded in action in 1917

British War and Victory Medals (5811 Pte J.S. Duncan. 19 Bn. A.I.F.); War Medal 1939-45 (N13840 J.S. Duncan), light contact marks, very fine (3)

James Stewart Duncan a 22-year-old tailor from Rockdale, Sydney enlisted in the 19th Battalion on 12 June 1916. He suffered a gunshot wound to the left hand in France on 28 February 1917 and sent to England to recover. Returning to Australia on 1 November 1917, he was discharged on 2 July 1918. He re-enlisted on 31 July 1940 in the Royal Australian Corps of Signals and discharged on 5 November 1945; sold together with copied research.

Further entitled to the Australian Service Medal.


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