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HMAS Canberra sunk Battle of Salvo Island WW2 Australian Navy medals Dunn RAN
For sale – medal group – 1939 – 45 Star with unofficial SOUTH ATLANTIC clasp, Pacific Star, both unnamed as issued; War Medal (1939 – 45); Australian Service Medal 1939 – 45 both impressed named F.3180 A.A. DUNN.; Unofficial Solomon Island Medal impressed named F3180 A.A. DUNN. H.M.A.S. CANBERRA. Medals lacquered and court mounted for display and comes with copies of service records and newspaper articles including picture. Arthur Archibald Dunn was born on 3/4/1919 in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. He enlisted into the Royal Australian Navy on 23/9/1940 as an Ordinary Seaman and after initial training at Leeuwin was posted to HMAS Canberra (Kent class heavy cruiser) 0n 13/5/1941 serving on her until she was sunk in action on 9/8/1942 during the Battle of Savo Island. At the time U.S. Marines were put ashore on Guadalcanal and other nearby islands on the 7th August, the Imperial Japanese Navy reacted by assembling a force of five heavy cruisers, two light cruisers and one destroyer which proceeded to the area intending to strike the shipping in the location and disrupt the shore forces. The Canberra’s lookouts had detected the Japanese in the darkness and were at action stations and the ship commenced to […]
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