Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part III)

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Lieut. E. J. Harris, 2nd 17th Leicester Regt.), impressed naming, nearly extremely fine £400-500

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Collection of Medals to the Leicester Regiment and Yeomanry formed by the late Trevor Harris.

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Edward Jackson Harris was commissioned into the 17th Regiment in May 1858 and was advanced to Lieutenant in June 1860, in which latter rank he served during the Fenian troubles of 1866. He appears to have resigned or retired in the course of 1870.