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Medal, decoration   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Medal, decoration
Object type Classification: 273
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English: Ottoman War Medal, WW1 Also known as the Turkish Gallipoli Star Collected by 2-280 Major C McGilp, 1st Battery Field Artillery, NZEF five-pointed star; white metal and red imitation enamel; pin fastening soldered to back of medal; with ribbon obverse- crescent inside star encircling sultan's cipher and characters representing El Ghazi (The Victorious) below is date 333 in Turkish figures (1915); ribbon in pieces reverse- plain ribbon- red with two white stripes
Date Circa 1915; Sultan Mehmed Reshad V (1909-1918)-Ottoman Empire; World War 1, 1914-18-wars; 11 Nov 1981
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length x width: 55 x 55mm
width: 32mm

notes: 56mm x 56mm (h x w); ribbon diam: 31mm
institution QS:P195,Q758657
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809234 (object number)
Place of creation Turkey; Gallipoli; Asia
Exhibition history Display: 3E
Credit line Collection of Auckland War Memorial Museum Tamaki Paenga Hira, N1955
Notes Turkish Gallipoli Star Collected by Major Clyde McGilp, 1st Battery Field Artillery, NZEF. Clyde McGilp, of Birkenhead, Auckland, served with the Field Artillery in Egypt, Gallipoli, and Western Europe. He received a recommendation for his Gallipoli service during Sept. - Dec.1915 .in particular for his very able handling of his battery which “almost enfiladed the whole of the Chunuk Bair position”. The Battery was also thanked by Brigadier-General Hobbs CDA, First Australian Division for their assistance in the attack on Lone Pine Ridge. Citation for DSO awarded in 1917 acknowledged his command of the Battery in the heavy fighting if Gallipoli. On 14 November 1918, four months after his discharge from active service, Clyde McGilp died of influenza while working at the Featherston Training Camp.
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