Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Attributed to Lance-Sergeant G. Spence, Australian Forces
1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; Defence Medal; Australia Service Medal, with M.I.D. oak leaf, all unnamed; with named medal forwarding slip listing medals and M.I.D. (The War Medal is listed in place of the Australia Service Medal), good very fine

Four: Private J. F. Pascoe, Australian Forces
1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, these officially named ‘QX10729 J. F. Pascoe’; Australian Service Medal, unnamed, good very fine

Four: Private L. W. Masters, Australian Forces
1939-45 Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45; Australian Service Medal, these all officially named ‘NX156205 L. W. Masters’, good very fine and better (13) £100-£140

Eric Smith Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, September 2009.

G. Spence was Mentioned in Despatches forhte South West Pacific campaign (London Gazette 8 March 1945).

John Francis Pascoe was born in Brisbane, Queensland on 7 February 1914. He enlisted at Maryborough, Queensland on 6 July 1940. He was discharged from 1 C.T.S. Col. on 9 August 1945.

Lawrence William Masters was born in Botony, N.S.W. on 17 June 1921. He enlisted at Geraldton, Western Australia on 12 January 1943. He was discharged from the 4th Battalion on 4 April 1946.