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| Interesting groups of medals awarded to Australians or Kiwis Page 4 |
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| Cyril Albert Clowes was born in Queensland in 1892. In 1911 he entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon. He was appointed a lieutenant in the AIF and posted to 1 Field Artillery Brigade. Clowes landed on Gallipoli on 25 April 1915 and served as a forward observation officer directing naval gunfire against Turkish positions. In January 1916 he was promoted to Captain in 2 Division Artillery. He served as the Division's Trench Mortar Officer and was awarded the Military Cross. In 1918, as a Major, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his work at Villers Bretonneux. Clowes returned to Australia in April 1919. Between 1920 and 1925 he served as an instructor at Duntroon. From 1926 to 1936 Clowes undertook staff, training and command duties in Brisbane, Sydney and Darwin. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and undertook a gunnery course in England, returning to Sydney as chief instructor at the School of Artillery. He was promoted to Colonel in November 1939 after assuming command of 6 Military District. In 1940 Clowes was made temporary Brigadier in the Second AIF and placed in command of the Royal Australian Artillery, I Corps. He served in North Africa and in Greece. Returning to Australia in January 1942 Clowes was promoted to temporary Major General and given command of 1 Division. In July he was sent to Port Moresby and given command of what became known as Milne Force. He reached Milne Bay and took up his position four days before the Japanese began the invasion. | |
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Group of medals awarded to a soldier from the Philippines for service in South Viet Nam |
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| Awarded to Thai troops for service in SVN |
US group including Vietnamese Medal |
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Medals of "The Last Anzac", Alec Campbell. |
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The Gallipoli Star was presented to Alec
Campbell by Mr Ross Smith at Lady Davidson Hospital on 22 April 1990,
just before the departure of the 75th Anniversary Anzac Day pilgrimage
of veterans to Gallipoli. At his own expense, Mr Smith had the Gallipoli
Star manufactured from the original designs, which were not then
approved for issue, to present to surviving Australian and New Zealand
Anzac veterans.
Alec William Campbell was born in Launceston, Tasmania, in 1899. Aged 16, he enlisted in the AIF in July 1916, claiming to be an 18 year old clerk, and despite his small size and obvious youth, sailed on the 'Kyarra' in August 1915 as No 2731 with the 8th Reinforcements to 15 Infantry Battalion. Landing at Gallipoli on 2 November, Campbell served as a water carrier for the remainder of the campaign at Anzac. While at Gallipoli, he suffered from a bout of influenza, and was also injured when accidentally struck in the face by a comrade's rifle. He, and the rest of the battalion, were evacuated from the peninsula as part of the general withdrawal on 13 December. On 1 January 1916, he was admitted to 2 Australian General Hospital in Egypt, and over the next six months suffered from jaundice, mumps and Bells Palsy, a form of facial paralysis caused by the facial injury he had suffered at Anzac. Although occasionally allowed to return to his unit, Campbell's health during this period was never good, and he was eventually repatriated to Australia medically unfit in June 1916, aboard the A.15 'Port Sydney', and discharged from the Army. After the war, Campbell worked in the construction of railway carriages and houses, before joining the Public Service, where he eventually became a research economist. The Bells Palsy which developed as a result of his Gallipoli injury eventually caused the loss of his right eye. When Roy Longmore died in June 2001, Alec Campbell was left as the only surviving Australian veteran of the Gallipoli campaign. He died on 16 May 2002 in Hobart. |
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| The collection of a Trooper from the Camel Corps of WW1 who re-enlisted in WW2 | |
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