Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal A. Strode, New Zealand Field Artillery, late 9th Otago Mounted Rifles, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 20 August 1918

1914-15 Star (9/495 Cpl. A. Strode. N.Z.E.F.); British War and Victory Medals (9/495 Cpl. A. Strode. N.Z.E.F.) nearly extremely fine (3) £100-£140

Alexander Strode was born in Kyeburn, Otago, New Zealand on 6 November 1883 and attested for the 9th Otago Mounted Rifles, New Zealand Expeditionary Force on 11 August 1914, having previously served with the 5th New Zealand Mounted Rifles. He left New Zealand with the main body of the Expeditionary Force, and served in the Gallipoli campaign, where he was wounded in the left leg, before proceeding to the Western Front. Transferring to the 7th Battery, New Zealand Field Artillery, on 1 March 1916, he was promoted Corporal on 25 March 1918, and was killed in action at Bapaume on 20 August 1918. He is buried in Couin New British Cemetery, France.

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