Australia. A Greek, North African &New Guinea Campaign Group, 2Nd/8Th Field Ambulance, Australian Imperial Force

1939-1945 Star (NX53912 C.C. HOGAN); Africa Star with 8th Army clasp (NX53912 C.C. HOGAN); Pacific Star (NX53912 C.C. HOGAN); Defence Medal (NX53912 C.C. HOGAN); War Medal 1939-1945 (NX53912 C.C. HOGAN); Australia Service Medal 1939-1945 (NX53912 C.C. HOGAN); and Greece: Army Commemorative Medal of the War of 1940-1941. Naming is officially impressed on the six awards. Court-mounted, polished, replacement ribbons, adhesive evident on the medals from previous position mounting, near extremely fine. Accompanied by copies of his Service Records.

Footnote: Charters Carlyle Hogan was born on March 4, 1909 in Cottesloe, Western Australia. He was a resident of Edgecliff, New South Wales (a suburb of Sydney) when he signed his Attestation Paper as a Private (NX53912, the "N" prefix for New South Wales, the "X" prefix for the Australian Imperial Force) with the Australian Imperial Force on July 9, 1940 in Paddington, New South Wales (a suburb of Sydney) on July 9, 1940, at the age of 31, naming his mother, Emilia Hogan of Mosman Park, Western Australia as his next-of-kin, stating that he had no previous military service, that he was Single, that his religion was Church of England and that his trade was that of Salesman and Clerk. He was then posted to the Australian Army Medical Corps at the Sydney Showgrounds. Seven weeks after enlisting Hogan was promoted to Lance Corporal on August 26, 1940. He was transferred to No. 6 Australian General Hospital on November 13, 1940, and reverted to the rank of Private upon the transfer. Private Hogan embarked for operations in the Middle East on December 26, 1940. He participated in operations in Greece in April 1941 and returned to Alexandria, Egypt on May 16, 1941. He was graded as a Group III Nursing Orderly on November 29, 1941 and posted to Base Depot on May 25, 1942. Upon arrival in the North African theatre, he was posted to the 2nd/8th Field Ambulance on August 15, 1942, for operations in El Alamein. After six months serving in North Africa, he returned to Australia on February 27, 1943, disembarking in Sydney on March 3rd. Hogan is documented as having been hospitalized "sick" for a month, from his arrival in Sydney on March 3rd, until April 4th. Having already served in Greece and North Africa, his services were required again, this time in New Guinea against Japanese forces. He embarked Cairns, Queensland aboard the Dutch ship SS Vander Lijn for Milne Bay and operations in New Guinea, on July 26, 1943. After seven months in New Guinea, he returned to Australia on February 10, 1944 aboard the SS Anhui, departing Finschhafen, a town eighty kilometers east of Lae on the Huon Peninsula in Morobe Province, New Guinea, disembarking in Brisbane, Queensland on the 21st. He was serving with his unit when he was evacuated "sick", with a "fractured metatarsal" bone in his foot on July 23, 1945 and admitted to No. 101 Australian General Hospital. After three weeks in hospital, he was posted to No. 103 Australian Convalescent Depot on September 14th. Upon the ceasing of hostilities, Private Hogan was with the New South Wales Lines of Communication, Medical and Veterinary Stores unit when he was discharged upon demobilization, on December 12, 1945. For his Second World War service, Hogan was awarded the 1939-1945 Star, the Africa Star with 8th Army clasp, the Pacific Star, the Defence Medal, the War Medal 1939-1945 and the Australia Service Medal 1939-1945, credited with having served for 1,983 days (808 days of Active Service in Australia, in addition to 1,005 days of Active Service Overseas), entitled to wear the War Service Badge, number A179116. In addition, for his service in Greece, he was awarded the Army Commemorative Medal of the War of 1940-1941 by the Greek government.