Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Serjeant J. P. O’Neill, Irish Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (4454 Pte., Ir. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (4454 Sjt., Ir. Gds.) good very fine (3)
£160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Fine Collection of 1914 Star Groups.

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Private Joseph O’Neill, Irish Guards entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 13 August 1914. Served in the 4th Guards Brigade, 2nd Division, in Haig’s I Army Corps. The unit had its first serious action near Viller Cotterets, near Crepy, 1 September 1914. With copied m.i.c. - clasp confirmed.