Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Gunner J. Flynn, Royal Horse Artillery, later Royal Field Artillery

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98, second clasp a tailor’s copy (75416 Gunner J. Flynn. K: Bty. R.H. Artillery); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Diamond Hill, Johannesburg, Wittebergen (75416 Gnr: J. Flynn. P Bty: R.H.A.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (75416 Gnr: J. Flynn. R.H.A.); 1914 Star (10044 Gnr: J. Flynn. R.F.A.); British War and Victory Medals (10044 Gnr: J. Flynn. R.A.) suspension loose on IGS, heavily polished with contact marks and edge bruising,, therefore fair (6) £240-£280

John Flynn was born in Collooney, Sligo, Ireland, and attested for the Royal Horse Artillery after previous service with the Sligo Artillery Volunteers. He served in India for six years from 16 September 1891 to 28 March 1898 taking part in both the Tirah and Punjab Frontier campaigns of 1897-98, and then in South Africa during the Boer War from 16 March 1900 to 2 August 1902, before transferring to the Reserve on 16 August 1902.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Flynn attested for the Royal Field Artillery on 1 September 1914, and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 6 October 1914. A serial offender, he appears many times in the regimental defaulters book.

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