MILITARY MEDAL (Single) 6th/Liverpool Regt (Rifles) T.F. Twice Wounded In Action. From Kerry, Ireland.

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MILITARY MEDAL (Single) 6th/Liverpool Regt (Rifles) T.F. Twice Wounded In Action. From Kerry, Ireland.

 

MILITARY MEDAL
(Single)

To:
48243. Pte. J.O'Sullivan.
6/Liverpool Regt.
(6th (Rifles) T.F.

Born: Kerry, Ireland. Employment: 'Coal Heaver'

Enlisted: 16th August 1916. age 28 .To Bologne 21st March 1917

Also entitled to War & Victory Medals.

Unit first in France:
25th February 1915
(Le Havre)

Full Service papers survive:
MEDICAL


Wounded-in-Action 10.11.1917
'Shrapnel wound, left arm / Gunshot wound'

Had 'defective teeth'
'Could not read but could count well'.

CONDUCT
Overstayed leave.
Disobeyed orders
Absent from night operation 1916.

MILITARY MEDAL
London Gazette 17th June 1919
For, "France & Flanders" MILITARY MEDAL (Single) 6th/Liverpool Regt (Rifles) T.F. Twice Wounded In Action. From Kerry, Ireland. MILITARY MEDAL (Single) 6th/Liverpool Regt (Rifles) T.F. Twice Wounded In Action. From Kerry, Ireland.

  

An interesting man from Ireland who enlisted against popular
Irish attitudes of the time. Small pawnbroker's mark in obverse left field, but a really nice EF+ medal to a highly sought after unit,
On its original ribbon.

£595

 

 







 

MILITARY MEDAL (Single) 6th/Liverpool Regt (Rifles) T.F. Twice Wounded In Action. From Kerry, Ireland.

MILITARY MEDAL (Single) 6th/Liverpool Regt (Rifles) T.F. Twice Wounded In Action. From Kerry, Ireland.
£SOLD

MILITARY MEDAL (Single) 6th/Liverpool Regt (Rifles) T.F. Twice Wounded In Action. To: 48243. Pte. J. O'SULLIVAN. 6/L'pool R. An interesting man from From Kerry, Ireland