Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (10/198 L/Sjt. A. Baines. N.Z.E.F.); British War Medal 1914-20 (6/3294 Pte. T. Dansie. N.Z.E.F.); Australia Service Medal (NX18450 S. N. Willmott) good very fine (3) £80-£100

Arthur Baines was born at Bradford, Yorkshire in 1882 and having emigrated to New Zealand enlisted in the Wellington Infantry Battalion, New Zealand Expeditionary Force at Masterton, on 17 August 1914, declaring prior service with the Scots Guards (June 1903 to December 1904, discharged at his own request on payment). He is recorded on the 1914 nominal roll of the N.Z.E.F. as a Bugler, and was a resident of Mauriceville, Wairapa, New Zealand. He was killed in action with the Wellington Battalion, at Gallipoli in the attack on Chunuk Bair on 8 August 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Turkey.

Thomas Dansie was born in London on 18 June 1888, and having emigrated to New Zealand was residing at Lancaster’s, Denniston, Canterbury and was in the employ of the Westport Coal Company. He enlisted into ‘C’ Company, 8th Reinforcement Battalion, N.Z.E.F., and on arriving in France he was posted to 1st Canterbury Regiment. He was admitted to hospital in France with a gun shot wound to the chest on 25 September 1916, and died of his wounds at 3rd Stationary Hospital, Rouen, on 4 October 1916. He is buried at St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France.

Stanley Nelson Willmott was born at Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia, on 23 September 1912. He enlisted at Paddington, N.S.W., and served as Private, No. NX18450, during the Second World War in 2/13th Australian Infantry Battalion, Australian Army and was killed in action, in Egypt, on 24 October 1942. He is buried at El Alamein War Cemetery, Mersa Matruh, Egypt.

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