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23 June 2021

Hammer Price:
£500

1914-15 Star (864 Pte. W. T. Davies. 10/L.H. Rgt. A.I.F.); Victory Medal 1914-19 (1514 Pte. F. Pond. 4-L.H. A.I.F.) minor edge bruising to latter, very fine (2) £70-£90

William Thomas Davies attested for the Australian Imperial Force on 13 January 1915, and served with the 10th Light Horse at Gallipoli.

Fred Pond was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, and having emigrated to Australia attested for the Australian Imperial Force at Ballarat, Victoria, on 9 July 1915. He served with the 4th Light Horse, and later with the 13th Infantry Battalion, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 7 October 1917. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France.

Sold with copied service papers.