JEWELLERY, ANTIQUE & ART AUCTION Tuesday, 7 July 2020 - 10:00 AM start
A N.Z. WWI 9ct gold tribute medal
Estimate: $800 - $1,000
Lot Details
shield-shaped and topped with an artillery badge with the dates ‘1914-1918’ on scrolls to either side. Presented to Battery Sergeant-Major Charles Forrest, (Fifth Draft to the N.Z.E.F. Field Artillery), from the residents of Ohinewai on his return from active service at Gallipoli, Egypt and France. B.S.M. Forrest was invalided back to NZ on the hospital ship Maheno in 1916. He died in 1922.
