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WW2 Australian Milne Force medals & cased coin to Signaller Norris & New Guinea
For sale is a 1939 -45 Star, pacific Star, War Medal and Australian Service Medal 1939 – 45 all named WX29020 J.L. NORRIS. They come with copies of service record extracts and 60th Anniversary end of WW2 cased coin. Set came direct from the family. John Leslie Norris was born in Northam, Western Australia in 1919. He was working as a clerk when he enlisted into the Militia being posted to the Western Command Signals Unit on 8/3/194 with service #W234421. He was issued with a new service # WX29020 in July 1942 on transferring to the A.I.F. He was posted to Queensland Line of Command area in July 1942 and then onto the Milne Force Signals landing on 21/8/1942. Milne Force was a garrison force formed in July 1942 which controlled Allied naval, land and air units in the region of Milne Bay. He was detached for ‘Special Duty” from 27/9/1942 – 9/11/1942. The special duty was with ‘A” Heavy Battery. A’ Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery Regiment was re-designated as the 2nd Mountain Battery deployed to New Guinea as a special Artillery Unit with a special task and arrived in Port Moresby on the 19/9/1943. After considerable training and […]
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