Auction Catalogue

28 March 2002

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals Including five Special Collections

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 995

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28 March 2002

Hammer Price:
£1,950

Seven: Regimental Quarter-Master Sergeant D. McKeown, Royal Dublin Fusiliers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Transvaal, Laing’s Nek, Cape Colony (4171 Sgt., Rl. Dublin Fus.) top clasp with unofficial rivets; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4171 Clr. Serjt., Rl. Dublin Fus.); 194-15 Star (15117 Q.M. Sjt., R. Dub. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (15117 W.O.Cl.2., R.D. Fus.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (15117 Q.M. Sjt., R. Dub. Fus.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (15117 R.Q.M. Sjt., 8/9 R. Dub. Fus.) some edge bruising and contact wear, otherwise nearly very fine and better (7) £400-500

M.S.M. London Gazette 17 June 1918.

Slightly wounded at Colenso on 15 December 1899.