Orders, Decorations and Medals

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1885-7 (13 Corpl. P. Murphy, 2nd Bn. R. Muns. Fus.) some faint scratches to obverse, minor edge bruising, good very fine £120-160

Patrick Murphy was born in Cork. A Labourer by employment and a member of the 9th King’s Royal Rifles Militia), he attested for the Royal Munster Fusiliers at Cork on 16 July 1881, aged 20 years. With the regiment he served in Malta, July 1882-March 1884 and in the East Indies, March 1884-February 1889. His papers show his entitlement to the clasps for Burma 1885-7 and 1887-89. He was discharged on 15 July 1893. With copied service papers and roll extract.