Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Trooper E. P. Hackett, South Irish Horse (Dublin), Imperial Yeomanry
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal, S.A. 1901 (11196 Tpr., 61st Coy. 17th Impl. Yeo.); Dublin Tribute Medal 1901, 9 carat gold, 33 x 23 mm, the reverse with maker’s marks ‘W. Clare, Dublin’, and inscribed ‘E. P. Hackett, 61st 2nd Dublin Yeomanry, For Valour 1901, from their fellow countrymen’, fitted with integral crown and small ring for suspension, the pair contained in a fitted case by Weir & Sons, Dublin, nearly extremely fine and rare (2)

Ref. Hibbard B2.
Six officers and 57 other ranks from the 61st (2nd Dublin) Irish Imperial Yeomanry received the gold “shamrock badge” at a special presentation in the City of Dublin in June, 1901. Sold with further research including copy service papers.