Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Talana, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5392 Corl. W. Gallaher. Rl. Irish Fus:) small official correction to surname, light edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine £180-£220

William Gallagher was born at Cork and enlisted there for the Royal Irish Regiment on 9 September 1895, aged 18 years 2 months, a clerk by trade. He served overseas in Egypt from February 1898 to September 1899, and then in South Africa until October 1902, and in India from October 1908 until December 1910, otherwise at home until his discharge in consequence of being medically unfit for further service on 17 January 1911. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts which show entitlement to K.S.A. with 2 clasps, give his initial as ‘J’ and spell his surname ‘Gallagher’.