Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel N. F. Boag, New Zealand Medical Corps

New Zealand Long and Efficient Service Medal, 2nd type, unmarked (Maj., N.Z.M.C.); New Zealand Territorial Service Medal, G.V.R., 2nd type (Maj., N.Z.M.C.) nearly extremely fine (2) £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Norman Francis Boag was born on 13 August 1897 in Leeston, Canterbury, New Zealand. He graduated as a M.B., Ch.B. at the University of Otago in 1920. Boag enlisted in the Otago University Medical Company in 1914. He eventually became a Lieutenant-Colonel, having been commissioned in 1918. In the Second World War he embarked for Egypt in Spring 1940 and was the Commanding Officer of No. 1 Convalescent Depot, March-December 1940. He returned to New Zealand in early 1941. In addition to the above, awarded by General Orders 349/350 of October 1930, he was awarded the Serving Brother of the Order of St. John; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; War and New Zealand Service Medals, and Efficiency Decoration for New Zealand. Sold with copied research.