A Dundonian 'Digger' & Nursing Orderly's 8th Army Second World War campaign medal group of 5: Private John McCabe, 2/3 Casualty Clearing Station, 9th Australian Division, 2nd Australian Imperial Force

- The 1939-1945 Star. No clasp (NX56424 J. McCabe)
- The Africa Star. With '8th Amy' clasp (NX56424 J. McCabe)
- Defence Medal (NX56424 J. McCabe)
- War Medal (NX56424 J. McCabe)
- Australia: Australia Service Medal (NX56424 J. McCabe)

The campaign medals are all officially impressed Australian issues

Recipients service papers: A full set of 27 x pages of service records, including photographic identity images for this recipient are held and accessible at the Australian National Archives, per below link (for copying and inserting in www search)

- https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=4616129

John McCabe was a native of Dundee, Scotland, where he was born on 7 August 1900. Prior to his enlistment in the 2nd Australian Imperial Force, at Paddington, New South Wales, on, 4 July 1940, John had been employed as a 'Labourer'. His residence in Australia, was located at. Spring Gully, Ophir Road, Orange, New South Wales, and his notified next of kin was his Lilian McCabe. After completion of his basic training, John embarked from, Sydney, Australia, on, 27 June 1941, sailing with convoy US 11A bound for destination Middle East, where he disembarked on, 31 July 1941. Once in theatre John was attached to the Australian Army Medical Corps Training Wing, subsequently serving with several hospital / medical units, and latterly with, 2/3 Casualty Clearing Station, in theatre from , 19 July 1942 through to 28 January 1943, on which latter date his unit and rest of the 9th Australian were embarked for return to Australia, where they disembarked on 28 February 1943. Private John McCabe took his final discharge from the Australian Army, on, 5 May 1943, due to being medically unfit for further service

2/3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station, 9th Australian Division: In June 1942 the unit as relocated to Tripoli from Beirut, but soon after were rushed to the western desert to support units seeking to halt the rapid German advance on Egypt. The 2/3 Australian casualty Clearing Station was to establish itself at Sidi Bishr, where they supported troops defending the line around El Alamein. When the British forces broke out, the Heavy Section operated at Burg el Arab and the Light Section further forward at Hamman. Before they were recalled in December, the Light Section had reached Mersa Matruh and the Heavy Section Garawla. They left the Middle East for Australia in January 1943

Note: 9th Australian Infantry Division, 2nd Australian Imperial Force, was the only Australian Division to fight at El-Alamein, for which service all members of 9th Australian Division who served at El-Alamein were subsequently awarded the coveted campaign clasp '8th Army' for wear on The Africa Star

Condition: GVF

Code: 23432