Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private J. Scanlan, Royal Irish Rifles, later Royal Irish Fusiliers and Liverpool Regiment
1914 Star, with clasp (9901 Pte. J. Scanlan. R. Ir: Rif.); British War and Victory Medals (9901 Pte. J. Scanlan. R. Ir. Rif.); together with the recipient’s Silver War Badge, the reverse officially numbered ‘B231794’, light contact marks, generally very fine

General Service 1962-2007, 1 clasp, Borneo (23708526 Spr. V. E. Scanlan. RE.) good very fine (4) £180-£220

John Scanlon was born in Dublin on 7 March 1893 and attested for the Royal Irish Rifles at Dublin on 4 January 1912. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 August 1914, and subsequently transferred to the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Fusiliers, and finally to the Liverpool Regiment. He was discharged from the latter unit on 2 March 1919, ‘in consequence of being surplus to military requirements, having suffered impairment since entry into the War’, after 7 years and 58 days’ service, and was awarded a Silver War Badge.

Sold with the recipient’s Character and Discharge Certificates; and two postcard photographs featuring the recipient.

Vincent Eamonn Scanlon, the son of the above, was born in Dublin on 26 April 1941 and attested for the Royal Engineers at Belfast on 5 May 1959. He served with the Engineers with the British Army of the Rhine, and then in the Far East from 18 September 1962 to 30 January 1965. He transferred to the Reserve on 4 May 1965, after 6 years’ service, and was finally discharged on 4 May 1971.

Sold with the recipient’s Certificate of Service Red Book and attestation form; Passport; Driving Licence; and other ephemera, including a photograph of the recipient.