Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., 1st issue, large letter reverse, edge dated, impressed naming (J. Mc.Namara, Serjeant 7th Dragoon Guards. 184.) last digit of year obscured by suspension claw, the reverse additionally privately engraved ‘1843’, originally fitted with a steel clip, now replaced by a later scroll suspension, edge bruising, good very fine £180-£220

James McNamara was born in Longford, Ireland, on 11 October 1796 and attested for the 7th Dragoon Guards on 11 October 1809, aged 13, a trumpeter by trade. He was promoted Trumpet Major on 25 May 1829, and Hospital Sergeant on 27 May 1841, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1843. He was discharged on 25 April 1843, after 28 years and 197 days’ man’s service. He died in Dublin on 22 October 1879.

Sold with copied record of service.