Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

The mounted group of eight miniature dress medals attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel M. M. Hartigan, C.M.G., D.S.O. & bar, Hartigan’s Horse, Royal Dublin Fusiliers and Royal Munster Fusiliers, Order of St. Michael & St. George, gold and enamel; Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, complete with top bar, with gilt second award bar; Queen’s South Africa, 2 clasps, Orange Free State, Defence of Kimberley; King’s South Africa, 2 clasps; 1914-15 Star; British War and Bilingual Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf, mounted as worn; Defence of Kimberley Star 1899-1900, silver, with top bar inscribed, ‘15 Oct.- 15 Feb’, good very fine and better (8) £300-340

Ex Sotheby’s 3 March 1983, lot 349 and Derek Robinson Collection, D.N.W. 2 April 2003, lot 967.

Marcus Michael Hartigan was born in 1878 and educated at Portora School, Enniskillen. He served in the Boer War and was wounded. In the Great War, he raised and commanded Hartigan’s Horse serving in S.W. Africa and then with the 9th South African Horse he served in East Africa. Later he served with the 10th battalion Royal Dublin Fusiliers and 2nd battalion Royal Munster Fusiliers in France. With the ‘Munsters’ he was wounded and captured (31.3.1918). For his services in the war he was twice mentioned in despatches and awarded the C.M.G. and D.S.O. and bar. Sold with copied research details.