Summary

Efficiency Decoration, Australia medal awarded to Major J.R. Hall (Rex Hall), service number V24238 23/21 st. Battalion, circa 1930.
The Efficience Decoration was instituted on 23 September 1930. The decoration had the same form, an oval voided badge attached by a loop to the ribbon, throughout the Empire but with different bars on the ribbon to indicate where the service occurred. The basic qualification was 20 years service with war years counting double.

Physical Description

A voided oval in the form of a laurel wreath with a crown at the top, within the voided area the monogram GRI; a ring joins the crown to the ribbon, green with narrow yellow central stripe and the bar AUSTRALIA is mounted on the ribbon. The reverse has been engraved - V24238 MAJOR J.R. HALL 23/21 ST. Battalion

Obverse Description

A voided oval in the form of a laurel wreath with a crown at the top, within the voided area the monogram GRI; a ring joins the crown to the ribbon, green with narrow yellow central stripe and the bar AUSTRALIA is mounted on the ribbon.

Reverse Description

Engraved: V24238 MAJOR J.R. HALL 23/21 ST. Battalion

Edge Description

Plain

Significance

63 Lieutenant Joseph Rex Hall, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance
Joined 18 August 1914, 19 years 9 mths
b. Kerang
Accountant
Oct 1914, embarked for active service as Corporal, 1st Light Horse Field Ambulance
9 May 1915 Gallipoli
Aug 1915 promoted Sergeant
Posted to Imperial Camel Corps July 1916, Palestine
Transferred from 1st Light Horse to 3rd Anzac Camel Battn, Nov 1916
Apr 1918 Temp Captain, Imperial Camel Brigade
July 1918 Staff Capt, 5th LH Brigade
Sep 1918: staff in France
May 1919 ADC to General Chauvel, London
Returned to Aust July 1919
Appt terminated 14 Jan 1920
1929: at 386 Lower Malvern Rd, East Malvern
1967: his letter applying for Anzac medal

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