Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

South Africa 1834-53 (T. Maguire. 27th. Regt.) officially re-impressed naming, with a post-1873 suspension, nearly very fine £100-£140

Thomas Maguire was born in Inniskilling, co. Fermanagh, and attested for the 27th (Inniskilling) Foot at Newry on 18 January 1831, aged 22. He served with the regiment in South Africa from August 1835 to April 1848, and saw active service during both the First and Second Kaffir Wars, 1834-35 and 1846-47. He was discharged at Chatham on 6 June 1848, after 17 years and 131 days’ service.

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