Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Crimea 1854-56, 3 clasps, Alma, Inkermann, Sebastopol (P. Claherty. 88th. Regt.) officially impressed naming, heavy edge bruising and contact marks, good fine £400-£500

Patrick Claherty was born Rahoon, Co. Galway, in 1836 and attested for the 88th Regiment of Foot at Limerick on 14 February 1854. He served with them in the Crimea, and was slightly wounded in the trenches before Sebastopol on 9 May 1855 by gun shot to the mouth. He saw further service in India (also entitled to an Indian Mutiny Medal with clasp Central India), and was discharged on 30 March 1875, after 21 years and 32 days’ service, of which 13 years and 167 days were spent soldiering in India, his period of service having been interrupted by five days’ ‘absent without leave’ in July 1872.

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