Lot Archive

Lot

№ 215 x

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31 March 2010

Hammer Price:
£190

1914-15 Star (398 Pte. J. Downey, Conn. Rang.); British War Medal 1914-20 (2) (Lieut. J. S. Flanagan; 10124 Pte. T. Green, Conn. Rang.) last with edge bruising, very fine and better (3) £60-80

John Downey was born in and enlisted at Dublin. Serving with the 5th Battalion Connaught Rangers, he was killed in action in Gallipoli, 28 August 1915. His name is commemorated on the Helles Memorial.

J. S. Flanaghan, promoted to Lieutenant , Connaught Rangers, on 7 January 1918. With copied m.i.c.

10124 Private Thomas Green, 1st Battalion Connaught Rangers, was killed in action in Egypt on 19 September 1918.