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The Victoria Cross For Valour : Souvenir Dinner Menu, 1919,…
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Melbourne
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28-Nov-2021
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The Victoria Cross For Valour : Souvenir Dinner Menu, 1919, with multiple Signatures, 'Dinner Offered by Mr. Hugh D. McIntosh to Heros of the A.I.F. on whom His Majesty the King conferred the Victoria Cross For Valour : Hotel Australia : on the night of Armistice Day, November 11th, 1919'. Following the title pages, the menu and a page devoted to a poem, 'To these Brave' by Frank Morton, the following 26 pages bear the original signatures of the following 19 Victoria Cross recipients (in the order they appear) as well as several other notable guests: Provenance: The Estate of Sir Ernest Henry Wreford (1866 - 1938), thence by family descent. Wreford, a guest of McIntosh, has signed the title page. The Compliments page is signed by six other dignitaries, including Henry Teasdale Smith (an M.P. and associate of McIntosh, whose son, Malcolm, had died at Gallipoli), Charles Kinnaird MacKellar, Edmund Cowell (13th Light Horse), and others. 1: Albert Lowerson (1896 - 1945) born at Myrteford, Victoria. Sergeant 21st Battalion. Awarded the V.C. 'for most conspicuous bravery and tactical skill on the 1st September, 1918, during the attack on Mont Saint-Quentin...'
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