Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of twelve miniature dress medals worn by Colonel Allan ‘Jiggy’ Spowers, C.M.G., D.S.O., M.C., Commanding 2/24th Australian Infantry Battalion, who was taken prisoner at El Alamein in July 1942

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar, silver-gilt and enamel, with integral top riband bar; Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star, these last two by K. C. Luke, Melbourne; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Australia Service Medal; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1953, mounted court-style by Ince Bros., Tailors, Melbourne, very fine (12) £300-£400

Sold with a Great War period portrait miniature of the recipient as a second lieutenant, in hinged standing display case; and a small silver tea caddy, hallmarked Birmingham 1913, maker’s mark ‘C.E.T.’, the front face inscribed, ‘Presented to Mrs Allan Spowers, from The Argus and The Australasian Staffs, 4th Imperial Press Conference. London. 1930.’

For the recipient’s full-sized awards, see Lot 103.