THE LAURIE OSBORNE ESTATE MEDAL COLLECTION
Monday, 25 May - Monday, 8 June 2026
WWI/2 group with TSM to Thomas Joseph Banks (19 Feb 1895 - 25 Mar 1970) WWI 2/2357 Gnr. NZ Field Artillery 8th Reinforcements. Egypt; EEF and Western Front. WWII 3/19/239,
Realised: $520 plus premium
Lot Details
Lot comprises: (i) 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal; (ii) 1939-45 War Medal, NZ Service Medal and (iii) Territorial Service Medal (T.J.Banks, Late NZEF) Enlisted 24 Aug 1915. Discharged 6 June 1919. WWII 10 Jan 1942 to 14 Sept 1943 - 20th Coy (Bluff) Nat. Mil. Res. Class II. AWWM printout, NZ Archives printout. Provenance: Laurie Osborne Collection
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WWI trio to Sgt. W.J. Smith and three WWII medals on card attributed to ‘625911 Capt W.J. Smith WWII ‘,
Estimate: $360 - $450
WWI trio to Thomas Edward John Fraser (b.12 Dec 1893) WWI 13/325 NZEF Gnr. Auck. Mounted Rifles. Main Body. Egypt and Gallipoli (wounded Gallipoli),
Estimate: $260 - $400
WWI ANZAC Trio to Volunteer who enlisted 2 weeks after war declared and served at Gallipoli and the Western Front,
Estimate: $500 - $900
WWI ANZAC Trio; Memorial plaque and Gallipoli medallion to a 23 year old soldier who survived Gallipoli to be killed in action at the Somme. Together with a heartbreaking letter to his parents,
Estimate: $900 - $1,600
Uncommon trio and TLS to Chaplain to the Forces IV Class (Captain) Rev. Frederick Thomas Read,
Estimate: $400 - $800
WWI Trio with TSM to a Trooper who had been too young for the Boer War but a member of the Cadets; Wairoa Rifles and Territorials before enlisting at age 22 and fighting in the Sinai-Palestine Campaign,
Estimate: $550 - $1,000
WWI British War Medal: Victory Medal and Memorial Plaque and Scroll along with NZEF Cert of Service and an Armistice Ribbon to a machine-gunner on the Western Front who was wounded three times - eventually succumbing,
Estimate: $380 - $650
QSA with 1 clasp and WWI trio to New Zealand Veterinary Corps Trooper Edward May,
Estimate: $550 - $900
WWI ANZAC Trio and WWII Pair to soldier who volunteered a week after war was announced; but after Gallipoli wrote (regarding Churchill) ‘… the whole adventure is a betrayal’,
Estimate: $550 - $1,000
WWI/WWII ANZAC trio & pair; medallion; insignia; tags and badges; plus miniatures trio of Malay/Borneo medals to a Gallipoli sharpshooter (also see following lot),
Estimate: $900 - $1,500
WWI Trio to an NZEF Paymaster,
Estimate: $260 - $500
WWII Medal Group to Prisoner of War in Italy - Ronald Melville Jack (29 Aug 1902 - 2 Mar 1971) WWII 9536 W.O.2 5th Field Ambulance NZ Medical Corps,
Estimate: $500 - $800
WWI ANZAC Trio to N.C.O Medic who saw duty in Gallipoli; Flanders and France and was MiD by Haig,
Estimate: $400 - $600
WWI trio to ANZAC Charles Claude Craig 12/71 NZEF Sergt. Auck Infty Bn. Main Body. Egypt and Gallipoli (wounded),
Estimate: $260 - $400
WWI Trio to an Otago Sapper who landed at Gallipoli and was subsequently re-engaged there; but whose ongoing record of repeated sickness and hospitalisation reflected the horrendous conditions at Anzac,
Estimate: $300 - $500
Two Anglo-Boer War veteran Colonial Volunteer Forces Long Service Medals to Thomas Douglas Leitch - Farrier 8th NZ Mounted Rifles; Sth. Is. Regt. H-Sqdn. 10th Contgt.
Estimate: $480 - $750
WWI trio to James Lewis Robson (wounded in France) one of three brothers who served in the NZEF,
Estimate: $260 - $400
WWI Pair and Cap Badge to a Lyttleton Railways Fireman who served in the 15th Reinforcements and was wounded in France; along with photos; correspondence and discharge certificates,
Estimate: $600 - $1,000
WWI Trio to a soldier seriously wounded on the Western Front who served again in WWII,
Estimate: $260 - $400
WWI Military Cross (from Ypres - the First Battle of Passchendaele) and service medals to Richard Selwyn Halliwell who originally served in the Samoan EF; the NZEF Otago Infantry Bn. and subsequently WWII NZSC,
Estimate: $1,900 - $3,000
