Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Canadian Volunteer Service Medal; War Medal 1939-45; Africa Service Medal, officially impressed ‘328825 J. E. Cawood’; India Service Medal; New Zealand War Service Medal; Australia Service Medal, officially impressed ‘N53390 M. A. McIver’; South Africa Medal for War Service; together with a cast copy New Zealand Memorial Cross, G.VI.R., generally good very fine and better (8) £80-£100

Malcolm Alister McIver was born on 21 November 1919 at Ryde, New South Wales. An insurance inspector by profession, he enlisted on 17 January 1938 for war service with the Engineer and Signals Depot, Paddington, New South Wales. In late 1941, McIver began to feel unwell, and, upon close medical inspection, was advised that he was suffering from acute tonsillitis. Sent for an operation to remove the tonsils on 15 December 1941, he died from post-operative shock and haemorrhage in Ward No. 5 of the 113th Australian General Hospital, Concord West.