Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Lance-Corporal J. Fogarty, Northumberland Fusiliers, who was awarded the Russian Medal of St. George, and was posting missing, presumed dead, on the Western Front on 8 May 1915

1914-15 Star (1763 Pte. J. Fogarty. North’d Fus:); Russia, Empire, Medal of St. George, Third Class, silver, reverse officially numbered ‘22232’ and edge engraved ‘1763 Pte. J. Fogarty. 2/Northd. Fus.’, good very fine (2) £240-£280

Russian Medal of St. George, 3rd Class, London Gazette 25 August 1915:
‘For gallantry and distinguished service in the Field’.

Joseph Fogarty was born in Dublin and attested there for the Northumberland Fusiliers. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 16 January 1915 (the recipient’s m.i.c. erroneously gives the date 16.1.16), and was posted missing, presumed dead, on 8 May 1915. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.