Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (5) (K.38798 F. S. Chidley. Sto. 1 R.N.; 2. Lieut. F. R. Tripp.; 43597 Dvr. T. M. Wilkins. R.A.; M2-033482 Pte. F. A. Mc Elwee. A.S.C.; 1808 Pte. H. J. Stanley. 10 Bn. A.I.F.); War Medal 1939-45; together with a Second World War ‘For Loyal Service’ lapel badge, the first exhibiting signs of having been acid cleaned, otherwise generally very fine

Renamed and Defective Medals (4): Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasps (75 Orderly: F. W. Crane, St. John Amb: Bde:) suspension broken and planchet only, with surname partially officially corrected; British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (125141 Dvr. J. Maskell. R.A.; 861203 Pte. G. Haines 33-Lond. R.; 52676 Dvr... R.A.) the first two with suspensions broken and planchet only; the third partially erased; generally nearly very fine (9) £100-£140

Henry James Stanley attested for the Australian Imperial Force at Oaklands, South Australia, on 27 November 1914, and served with the 10th Battalion, Australian Infantry during the Great War. He died at home of typhoid fever on 31 July 1916, and is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Fremantle Cemetery, Western Australia.