Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901, unofficial retaining rod between third and fourth clasps (2414 Pte. J. Brennan. 1st. Rl: Irish Regt.) number officially corrected, polished, nearly very fine £80-£100

James Brennan was born in Thurles, Co. Tipperary, in 1875 and attested for the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment on 3 January 1894. He was embodied on 2 May 1900, and served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa during the Boer War. He was discharged on 4 June 1901.

Sold with copied service papers, and medal roll extract, which gives his clasp entitlement as Cape Colony, Belfast, and Wittebergen, and not the Transvaal clasp.