Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (1665 Pte. J. Fitzgerald, 52nd Foot) impressed naming, lacquered, good very fine £70-£90

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of the Soldiers of Oxfordshire Museum.

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Joseph Fitzgerald was born at Hackney, Middlesex, and enlisted, at the age of 21, at Rochester, Kent, on 9 March 1858. He is recorded in the British Army Worldwide Index for 1871 as a Sergeant, 52nd (Oxfordshire) Regiment of Foot as serving at Malta. He was discharged from the Army as Corporal, at Aldershot on 2 April 1879, having served for 21 years and 21 days having claimed his discharge on termination of his second period of engagement. In 1871 he had been reduced from Sergeant to Private, and was under arrest ‘for absence’. He had however again risen to the rank of Corporal by 1877.