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15 March 2023

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№ 316

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15 March 2023

Hammer Price:
£360

Three: Corporal John McDonough, 13th (Prince Albert’s) Light Infantry

Crimea 1854-56, no clasp (2565 Corpl. John McDonogh 13th P.A.L.I.) regimentally engraved naming; Indian Mutiny 1857-59, no clasp (Corpl. J, McDonough. 1st Bn. 13th Lt. Infy.); Turkish Crimea 1855, British issue, unnamed, fitted with replacement scroll suspension, edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise nearly very fine

John McDonough enlisted into the 13th Light Infantry at Enniskilling, Ireland, on 13 July 1847, aged 19 years 6 months. He served in Ireland, Scotland, and at Gibraltar, being promoted to Corporal in February 1855. He served in the Crimea from July 1855 to June 1856, before going out to India, via Gibraltar and Grahamstown, South Africa, in November 1857, serving there with the Left Wing of the regiment. He was discharged at Calcutta on 16 January 1860, time expired.

Sold with full muster details.