Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Five: Colour-Sergeant Michael Meade, Royal Munster Fusiliers, who took part in the landings at Gallipoli, 25 April 1915, and was killed in action on 21 August 1915

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen (5817 Pte. M. Meade, Munster Fus:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5817 Pte. M. Meade. Rl: Munster Fus:); 1914-15 Star (5817. Sjt. M. Meade. R. Muns. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (5817 C. Sjt. M. Meade. R. Mun. Fus.) the first two with contact marks, good fine, otherwise very fine (5) £500-£600

Michael Meade landed with the 1st Battalion, Royal Munster Fusiliers at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. He was killed in action on 21 August 1915, aged 35, and is commemorated by name on the Helles Memorial. He was the husband of Annie Kearen Dwyer (formerly Meade), of 15 Ballymullen Road, Tralee, co. Kerry.