Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Gunner P. Kelly, Royal Horse Artillery, later Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Relief of Mafeking, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between all clasps (78488 Dvr. P. Kelly. M. Batty: R.H.A.) renamed; 1914 Star, with clasp (99908 Dvr: P. Kelly. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (99908 Gnr. P. Kelly. R.A.) mounted court-style for wear, edge bruising, very fine (4) £120-£160

Patrick Kelly was born in Walsall, Staffordshire, in 1872 and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery at Lichfield on 13 March 1890. He served in India from 22 January 1892 to 17 December 1897, and then with ‘M’ Battery in South Africa during the Boer War from 17 February 1900 to 28 October 1901. He was discharged on 1 April 1902, after 12 years and 20 days’ service.

Re-enlisting following the outbreak of the Great War, Kelly served with the Royal Field Artillery on the Western Front from 5 October 1914, and was discharged on 14 December 1918.

Sold with copied record of service and medal roll extracts, that for the QSA annotated under remarks ‘Search 4/4/32’.