Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Chin-Lushai 1889-90 (2027 Pte. P. O’Brien 1st. Bn. Ches. R.) minor official correction to initial and first part of surname, edge bruising, good very fine £140-£180

Patrick O’Brien was born in Ayr in 1867 and attested for the Cheshire Regiment at Chester on 26 August 1885. A few months later he was tried by District Court Martial for assault; found guilty, he served 112 days’ imprisonment with hard labour. Transferred to Egypt and then Burma, O’Brien served on the Chin Lushai punitive expedition as part of the Northern Column. Posted to South Africa in 1900 with the 2nd Battalion, he was later discharged on termination of engagement.