WW2 AUSTRALIAN ARMY CHAPLAIN SERVICE MEDALS WX3371

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WW2 Australian Army Chaplin set of service medals WX3371. Group consists of Africa Star, Defence & War Medal & ASM 1939-45. Medals swing mounted as worn, this being his full entitlement. All medals are named to WX3371 F.C.N.INWOOD & come with full copied service record & research. Captain Frederick Charles Norman Inwood was a Methodist minister from Cottesloe, Perth, Western Australia, and served during the Second World War as a Chaplain 4th Class with the Australian Forces. He was born on the 19th May 1899, enlisting 1st June 1940. He served in North Africa with the 1st Anti-Aircraft Brigade. He contracted Pleurisy, whilst on active service, which seems to have ended his career, with him applying for hardship assistance and an early discharge, being discharged 29th April 1942. He then went to Bridgetown as a minister, applying to re-enter the ADF in 1945. A damming doctors report basically calls his ‘war-related’ illness a fabrication and states his real illness to be complete nervousness. Rare to find Australian Chaplin’s medals.