Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Sutlej 1845-46, for Moodkee 1845, 3 clasps, Ferozeshuhur, Aliwal, Sobraon (Joseph Killackey 31st Regt.) suspension slack, light contact marks, nearly very fine £800-1000

Joseph Killackey enlisted into the 31st Foot at Ballinasloe, County Galway, on 28 June 1842, a labourer by trade from Woodford, Galway. He joined the regiment in India at Umballa in March 1845 and thereafter participated in all four of the principal engagements of the Sikh War between 18 December 1845 and 10 February 1846.

Killackey returned with the regiment to England in January 1847, and was based in various locations in England and Ireland until January 1853 when the regiment embarked for the Greek Islands. He was promoted to Corporal in September 1847, reduced to Private in December 1848 following a period in confinement, reinstated to Corporal in August 1851, and promoted to Sergeant in April 1854. In May 1855 he embarked for the Crimea where the regiment was engaged in the siege of Sebastopol until its fall in September 1855. The regiment afterwards departed for Gozo where Joseph Killackey died from unknown causes on 10 January 1857.

Sold with copied medal roll entry and extracts from muster rolls.