Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Quarter Master Sergeant P. Connolly, King’s Own Scottish Borderers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Johannesburg (4015 Qr: - Mr: -Sjt: P. Connolly. K.O. Scot: Bord:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (4015 Qr: - Mr: -Sjt: P. Connolly. K.O. Scot: Bord:); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (4015 Q.M. Sgt. P. Connolly. K.O.S. Bord.) engraved naming, edge bruising, good very fine (3) £260-£300

Patrick Murphy, alias Connolly, was born in Inishcrone, Co. Donegal, in 1863. He attested into the King’s Own Scottish Borderers with the regimental number 3124 on 31 December 1880. Renumbered 4015, he was later appointed Quarter Master Sergeant and served in South Africa during the Boer War. He was discharged at Berwick on Tweed on 16 November 1902, giving his intended place of residence as Dalhousie, Midlothian.