Orders, Decorations and Medals

Family Group:

Three: Lance Corporal D. McCarthy, Royal Munster Fusiliers

1914 Star, with copy clasp (7555 L. Cpl., R. Muns. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (7555 Pte., R. Mun. Fus.)

British War Medal (7449 Pte. T. McCarthy, R. Mun. Fus.)

Six: Private C. W. McCarthy, Australian Forces

1939-45 Star; Africa Star, with 8th Army clasp; Pacific Star; Defence and War Medals; Australia Service Medal, all officially named (SX9475 ) good very fine or better (10) £140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Chris Murphy Collection of Medals to the Royal Munster Fusiliers.

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Private D. McCarthy was taken prisoner of war at Etreux and held in Switzerland.

Private Charles Walter McCarthy was wounded in action, sustaining shrapnel wounds to his right thigh and chest at Tobruk on 22 May 1941. Sold with eight pages of copied service papers.