Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Detective Head Constable T. Toohey, South Africa Police, late 9th Lancers

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (4081 Corpl., 9/Lcrs.) one rivet damaged between 4th & 5th clasp; King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (4081 corpl., 9th Lancers); South Africa Police Good Service Medal, 1st issue (1923-32) (No.498 (F) Det. Hd. Const. T. Tuohy) mounted as worn, note variation in surname, very fine (3) £360-400

With ‘Queen Victoria’s Christmas Tin 1900’ , empty. A note in the tin states, ‘Toohey was born in Limerick Junction, Co. Tipperary’.