Watch List notes:

WWI ID disc, made from a Turkish forty para, AH1255 Year 17 (1857) with reverse shaved and holed at top for suspension, impressed on reverse, 'H.H.HINTON/D./.516./3AI/.M.'; also a WWII sweetheart token being a silver disc and on obverse is a heart set within a basket weave pattern and inside the heart at the top left is a Rising Sun badge and in the centre, 'Given', on the reverse is a coconut tree at the right of an inscription, 'Love/Clyde/A.I.F./NEW. GUINEA./1943-44', all design work and text on the heart and on the reverse is stippled. The first coin worn, otherwise fine, the token very fine. (2)

Ex Dr Gordon C.Shortland Collection.

Herbert Henry Hinton, grocer, 28, born at Euroa, Vic; Enl. 31Aug1914 at Sydney, NSW, with two years service in ALH; Emb. 20Oct1914 with 3Bn and to Gallipoli; to Cpl 20Feb1916; to Sgt 31May1916; WIA 07Sep1916 GSW left thigh, France; RTA 22Feb1917 for recuperation from wound; Disch.10May1917 at own request dated 27Apr1917.
($90-100)