It is very satisfying to finalise a search just prior to Anzac Day. These WWI medals, awarded to 2258 Harry Edmund Wallis, are more to come out of the RSL Care SA bag.
Harry was a 19 year old tailor from Adelaide when he enlisted in May 1915. He was allocated to 11 Battalion, AIF. Harry's service record gives a lot of details about being hospitalised on multiple occasions but not much other details about his war service. He was wounded in action in 1918.
There are two details in his service record which I found interesting. Harry was also entitled to the 1914-15 Star. Also, in 1970, while a resident of the War Veterans Home, now RSL Care SA, Harry applied for the Anzac Medallion. Neither the star or medallion are with the other two medals which prompts me to wonder where they are now.
Harry did marry, however there is no evidence he had children. Harry died in 1976. I'll be sending these two medals to a relative of Harry's with the intention that these medals will be displayed for others to see.
The returned medal tally is now 2737.
I’d like to make an equity about a lost medal published on this site in 2016 and wondering who I should talk to.
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ReplyDeleteMy email address is at the top of the page. Glyn
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