Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Staff Sergeant-Major Patrick Shanley, Army Service Corps, wounded at the battle of Abassa, near Kumassi
Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, 1 clasp, Suakin 1885 (3074 2nd Cl. S. Sgt. P. Shanley, 3rd Co. C. & T.C.); Ashanti 1900, 1 clasp, Kumassi (S. Serjt:-Maj: P. Shanley, A.S.C.) high relief bust, officially impressed naming; Khedive’s Star 1884-6, pitting from star, otherwise nearly very fine or better (3) £600-700

The following obituary, with portrait, appeared in The Army Service Corps Journal:

‘We regret to announce the death of Pensioner Staff Serjeant Major Arthur Patrick Shanley, which occurred at Croydon, on 22nd June 1914, after a very brief illness, having been confined to his bed for only four days. He joined the King’s Own Scottish Borderers in 1868, transferred to the A.S.C. in 1870, and retired on a warrant officer’s pension in 1891. He was in possession of the Egyptian Medal and Star 1885, and King’s Medal for West Coast of Africa, 1900, and was wounded at the battle of Abassa. It was the boast of this fine old soldier that he was the first Pioneer Serjt. in the British Army.’ Sold with research.