Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, no clasp (1468 Pte. J. Gaffney, Rl. Irish Fus.) good very fine £50-70

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Royal Irish Fusiliers.

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James Gaffney was born in Monaghan. A labourer by occupation and a former member of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, he attested for the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Militia on 8 November 1898, aged 32 years. Later, after serving with the Royal Irish Fusiliers in South Africa, he was discharged as medically unfit at Netley on 19 February 1901. With copied service papers and roll extract which confirms a ‘no clasp’ medal, having been ‘invalided to England’.