Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (127. Sergt. I. of M: J. Flaherty, 61st. Foot) impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Russell Collection of Medals to the Gloucestershire Regiment.

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John Flaherty was born in County Mayo, Ireland, and attested for the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot at Liverpool on 14 October 1857. Promoted Corporal on 22 June 1863, and Sergeant on 5 April 1865, he was appointed Sergeant Instructor Of Musketry on 1 March 1869, and was discharged on 5 November 1878, after 21 years and 23 days’ service, of which 1 year and 71 days had been spent soldiering in India; 1 year and 58 days in Mauritius; and 5 years and 296 days in Canada and Bermuda.

Sold with a pewter half pint tankard, engraved with the cap badge of the 61st (South Gloucestershire) Regiment of Foot, with red glass bottom; and copied service papers which confirms that this is his sole medallic entitlement.