Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Police Constable T. Corcoran, Dublin Metropolitan Police

Visit to Ireland 1900 (P.C., D.M.P.) complete with brooch bar; Visit to Ireland 1903 (P.C., D.M.P.) lacks brooch bar, minor edge bruising and contact marks, very fine (2) £180-220

Thomas Corcoran, a Farmer from C. Cavan, joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police on 3 March 1889, aged 20 years, 6 months. On his record it was noted that he was awarded 5/- in June 1892 ‘for stopping a runaway horse’ and ‘appropriated’ in April 1894 ‘for arresting a corner boy who resisted arrest, assaulting him’. Four other monetary awards are recorded for ‘Special Police Services’ between 1899 and 1907. Corcoran retired with a pension on 28 May 1916 and died on 19 March 1949. Sold with copied service details.