Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Police Sergeant T. Leary, Dublin Metropolitan Police

Visit to Ireland 1900 (P.S., D.M.P.) complete with brooch bar; Visit to Ireland 1903 (P.S., D.M.P.) complete with brooch bar, good very fine (2) £240-280

Thomas Leary, a Farmer from Kilmilil, Co. Clare, joined the Dublin Metropolitan Police on 12 June 1883, aged 20 years. He was promoted to Sergeant in 1898 and retired with a pension in December 1908. During his time on the force he received a number of commendations and monetary awards for a variety of services, including:

‘Retaining in custody two men who assaulted him, and threw a bottle at another Sergeant’.

‘Retaining a powerful corner boy who stabbed him with a knife’.

‘Arresting a horse and driver for furious driving’.

‘Identifying and convicting ten prisoners who violently assaulted himself and a Constable’.

Balanced against this were a number of disciplinary entries on his service record, including:

‘Gossiping on duty’ with civilians, shopkeepers and Constables -for which he was cautioned or fined.

‘Absent from his beat, found coming out of public house - Cautioned’.

‘Highly improper conduct, incurring debt from a spirit grocer, and allowing his wife to incur a debt, also causing annoyance to proprietor by repeatedly standing in front of his shop and laughing at him to detriment of his business ... severely reprimanded ...’ Sold with copied service details