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№ 681

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11 October 2023

Hammer Price:
£1,900

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Talana, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (5461 Pte. J. Dennehy, Rl. Dublin Fus.) edge bruising, otherwise very fine £260-£300

John Dennehy was born in 1876 in the Parish of St Patrick’s, Cork, and enlisted into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1895. He is enlisted in the Regimental History as having been wounded by a gun shot in the right hip at Hart’s Hill on 23 February 1900.

Sold with research including copied discharge papers.