Auction Catalogue

23 September 2011

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 837

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23 September 2011

Hammer Price:
£320

Four: Captain H. R. McCafferty, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers

1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, G.VI.R. (Capt. H. R. McCafferty, R. Innisks.), mounted as worn, together with an Inniskilling Fusiliers prize medal for snapshooting, in bronze, named to ‘Lieut. McCafferty’ and dated ‘1945’, contact marks very fine or better (5) £200-250

Henry Redmond McCafferty, who was born in January 1916, served in the ranks for several years prior to being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in September 1944. Advanced to Captain in September 1950, he transferred to the Royal Army Medical Corps as a non-medical officer in November 1957 and was placed on the Retired List as a Major in February 1970.