Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Second Lieutenant E. O’Sullivan, Leinster Regiment

1914-15 Star (2853 Pte., Leins. R.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); together with original card boxes of issue; Registered envelope and postcard photograph of members of 10 Platoon, ‘D’ Company, including Private Martin Moffat, V.C., nearly extremely fine (3) £100-130

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Michael McGoona Collection to the Leinster Regiment.

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Second Lieutenant Eugene O’Sullivan was commissioned from the ranks on 23 October 1917. Sold with some typewritten biographical notes supplied by recipients step sister, stating: ‘He had taken part in the Battles of Guillemont and Guinchy and had been wounded in the leg. He died in 1924 at the age of 27 in Chicago, having gone to the U.S.A. when he was demobbed and when working in a factory, a piece of machinery fell on his head and killed him.’