Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private W. Monaghan, Royal Irish Rifles

1914-15 Star (7-4608 Pte., R. Ir. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (4608 Pte., R. Ir. Rif.) second with slight edge bruising, good very fine (3) £100-140

William Monachan was born in Sandymount, Dublin and enlisted at Dublin. Serving in the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, he died of wounds on 15 September 1916. He was buried in La Neuville British Cemetery, Corbie, Somme, France.