New Zealand Wars Medal - Officially impressed "J. George, Auckd Mila". The naming has been defaced and is marked as a specimen. In the 1960s the New Zealand government sold unclaimed medals, marked as above, to registered collectors.
John George was a member of the Auckland Militia and served with the Imperial Commissariat Corps on the steamer Sturt. Mr. George died in 1943 at the impressive age of 97 and was one of the last surviving veterans of the New Zealand Wars. His failure to claim his medal is a mystery. He was predeceased by a son who was killed in the Great War.