Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 3rd issue, small letter reverse (2843 Patk. Whelan, 1st. Bn. 11th. Foot.) minor edge bruising, good very fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Peter and Dee Helmore.

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Patrick Whelan was born in Clonmel, Co. Tipperary, c.1833. A labourer by occupation, he attested at Clonmel for the 11th Regiment of Foot on 18 January 1851, and the following year was posted to a Service Company to join the convict ship Equestrian sailing from Plymouth on 1 September 1852. Equestrian landed 290 male convicts at Van Demons Land on 16 December 1852; the Military Guard disembarked at Sydney and joined the 11th Foot HQ at Victoria Barracks in January 1853. The Regiment remained on convict duties in Australia until embarking for England on 23 October 1857, Whelan having served in Australia for five years and six months. He remained with the 1st Battalion on home duties until the battalion embarked for India, arriving at Fyzabad on 12 December 1864. He spent a further three years nine months in India, before returning home in 1868. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 1 July 1870, and was discharged on 2 April 1872, after 21 years and 75 days’ service, being awarded a pension of 13d per day. His Long Service Medal is his sole medallic entitlement.

Sold with copied record of service and other research.