Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lieutenant-Colonel J. C. S. Irving, Army Pay Department, late Royal Dublin Fusiliers, who was Mentioned in Despatches in 1901

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lt. Col. J. C. S. Irving. A.P.D.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Lt. Col. J. C. S. Irving. A.P.D.) mounted court-style as worn, edge bruise, good very fine (2) £240-£280

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901.

John Charles Sarle Irving was born in Greenwich on 24 March 1843, and was educated at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned Ensign in the 18th Foot on 7 April 1863, and was promoted Lieutenant in 1867. He was appointed Instructor of Musketry with the 39th Foot in 1878, and was promoted Captain in the 102nd Royal Madras Fusilier (later Royal Dublin Fusiliers) on 4 September 1880. He was appointed Paymaster in the Army Pay Department in 1886, and was promoted Major on 30 May 1896, and Lieutenant Colonel on 6 October 1899. He retired due to ill health in 1903, and died at Folkestone on 29 November 1914.