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Royal Mint; MacKennal, Bertram; William McMillan |
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| Title |
Medal, campaign |
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| Object type | Classification: 278 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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English: British War Medal 1914-20, WW1 Medal awarded to Major Clyde McGilp, NZ Field Artillery, NZEF. Mounted on bar with 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal. circular silver medal; plain, straight non-swivelling suspender; with ribbon; oak leaf badge, bronze, fixed to ribbon obverse- coinage head of King George V with the legend GEORGIUS V BRITT- OMN- REX ET IND- IMP- reverse- naked figure of St. George on horseback facing right. The horse is trampling on an eagle shield and cross bones symbolic of death; above the horse’s head is the sun, symbolic of victory. Around the edge are the dates, 1914 and 1918 ribbon- broad orange watered band down the centre, bordered with white, black and blue stripes badge- oak leaf, bronze named on edge- 2-280 MAJOR C. MC GILP N.Z.E.F. |
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| Date | 11 Nov 1981; World War 1, 1914-18-wars; George V (1910 - 1936)-House of Windsor-English reign; (1919) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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diameter: 36mm |
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| Accession number |
809233 (object number) |
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| Exhibition history | Display: 3E | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Credit line | Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, N1954 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes | British War Medal 1914-20, WW1 Medal awarded to Major Clyde McGilp, NZ Field Artillery, NZEF. Mounted on bar with 1914-15 Star and Victory Medal. Clyde McGilp, of Birkenhead, Auckland, served with the Field Artillery in Egypt, Gallipoli, and Western Europe. He received a recommendation for his Gallipoli service during Sept. - Dec.1915 .in particular for his very able handling of his battery which “almost enfiladed the whole of the Chunuk Bair position”. The Battery was also thanked by Brigadier-General Hobbs CDA, First Australian Division for their assistance in the attack on Lone Pine Ridge. Citation for DSO awarded in 1917 acknowledged his command of the Battery in the heavy fighting if Gallipoli. On 14 November 1918, four months after his discharge from active service, Clyde McGilp died of influenza while working at the Featherston Training Camp. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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