Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Private R. McCullagh, Liverpool Regiment, later Mercantile Marine

1914-15 Star (1512 Pte. R. McCullagh. L’pool. R.); British War and Victory Medals (1512 Pte. R. McCullagh. L’pool. R.); 1939-45 Star; Atlantic Star; Africa Star; Pacific Star; War Medal 1939-45, with named card boxes of issue, and bestowal slips, slight edge bruise to VM, otherwise very fine (8) £160-£200

Richard McCullagh, a steam engine labourer from Liverpool, was born in Dundalk, Co. Louth, on 10 October 1895. He attested into the Liverpool Regiment for service during the Great War and served on the Western Front with the 1/6th Battalion from 24 February 1915. He appears to have served with the battalion for the duration of the war. Post-War, he worked for the shipping line Messrs. T & J Harrison of Liverpool. He served during the Second War afloat in the Merchant Navy and served as Second Engineer in S.S. Custodian on convoy duty, of which some members were sunk, and next served in S.S. Explorer on similar duty. He continued to serve until October 1968, and died in Liverpool on 20 June 1972 at the age of 86.

Sold together with original photograph of the recipient taken during the Great War; a very good original crayon sketch of the recipient in uniform, drawn in 1944 in Australia; Continuous Certificate of Service book, confirming his Second War medal entitlement; an original signed regimental Christmas Card from 1915; and detailed copied research.