Item 02: Set of Medals of Brigadier Sir Frederick Galleghan, ca. 1914-1953

R 759/Item f
R 759/Item g

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ca. 1914-1953

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Copy print : PXB 338/4-7
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room

12 military and commemorative medals - on textile mount, pin and 2 clips on back - mount: 7.7 x 21.5 cm

Listed in order from left to right:

Distinguished Service Order
Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
Imperial Service Order
British War Medal 1914-1918
Allied Victory Medal 1914-1919
The 1939-1945 Star
The Pacific Star
British War Medal 1939-1945 with mention in despatches oak leaf on ribbon
Australia Service Medal World War II 1939-1945
King George V;s Silver Jubilee Medal 1935
Elizabeth II Coronation 1953 Medal
British Efficiency Decoration 1930

Badges are mounted on a bar with back covered with red felt. Two clips and a pin are fastened to back in order for the medals to be worn on important ceremonies. Smaller duplicate medalets were made for wearing every day or lesser occasions (refer to R 759 (g)).

Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 841 -

Information transferred from pictures card catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2009-2010

Medals identified from: Ribbons & medals ... / by H. Taprell Dorling in association with L. F. Guille. London, 1960. and: Medals to Australia with valuations / R.D. Williams. Malvern, S. Aust. : Skinner & Warnes, [1981].

Another copy of miniatures with the maker's name - Chorleys. Sydney. By Appointment and the Royal Coat of Arms filed at R 759 (g)

Some medals have been engraved with Galleghan's name and battalion