Orders, Decorations and Medals

Visit to Ireland 1903 (C. J. O. Hart, R.I.C.) complete with shamrock top suspension brooch, good very fine £100-140

Reference: Coronation and Royal Commemorative Medals 1887-1977, by H. N. Cole, an estimated 7757 medals struck by the Royal Mint.

Jones Ormsby Hart, the son of Michael & Rachel Hart (nee Bell) was born on 17 January 1868 at Lurganboy, Co. Leitrim, Ireland (on-line RIC records show conflicting place of birth as Co. Clare). Constable Hart has numerous entries in the Petty Sessions Registers circa 1890-1903, during which he is recorded as being stationed in Co. Mayo (mostly at Newport, Parish of Burrishoole) through to 1898, and has a final entry in that source for being stationed at Robertstown, Co. Kildare in 1903. He is recorded as having died on 30 January 1926, and his body was buried at Sligo Cemetery, Old Section, Co. Sligo Ireland. With copied notes.