Pacific Star : Corporal H D McCurdy, 6 Australian Returned Stores Depot

Place Oceania: New Guinea1, Aitape
Accession Number REL41054.002
Collection type Heraldry
Object type Medal
Physical description Bronze
Maker Unknown
Place made United Kingdom: England
Date made c 1946
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Description

Pacific Star. Impressed on the reverse with recipient's details

History / Summary

Service medal issued to Hilton Daniel McCurdy, a resident of Tamworth who enlisted in the AIF on 12 November 1942 at Liverpool. Assigned service number NX144223, McCurdy reached the rank of corporal and served in the New Guinea campaign, possibly at Aitape. He was discharged on 15 March 1946.