Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Three: Private M. Mahoney, Irish Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (3574 Pte., Ir. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (3574 Pte., Ir. Gds.) the second with slack suspension, edge bruising, otherwise generally very fine (3) £150-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Small Collection of Medals to the Irish Guards.

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Michael Mahoney was born at Clonmel, Co. Tipperary and enlisted in the Irish Guards in August 1910, aged 23 years. Posted to the 1st Battalion, he served at home until going to France on 12 August 1914, where he was taken P.O.W. on 1 November and interned in Holland for the remainder of the War.