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1919-21 War of Independence Service, 1939-46 Emergency Service
and 1971 Anniversary of The Truce Medals to Tom Barry Flying
Column member
Awarded to James Donovan (1894-1980) of Watergrasshill, Co. Cork. Said
to have served under Tom Barry, and said to have been in the third car
of Michael Collins’ motorcade the day Collins was killed in an ambush.
The 1939-46 medal is the Caoimhnóirí Áitiúla (Local Security Force) issue
and has one bar. (3)
Provenance: By descent to the previous owner;
Private Collection
€
800-
€
1,000 (£640-£800 approx)
572
A War of Independence medal, with ‘Comrac’ bar, awarded for service
in the Cavan Brigade and a 1939 - 45 Emergency Service medal.
Awarded to Patrick Francis McAdam; together with a 1939 - 45
Emergency Service medal awarded to Patrick (Patsy) McAdam, son of
Patrick Francis. (3)
€
500-
€
700 (£400-£560 approx)
573
1920-1945 The Life of an Irish Army Officer
The uniform, medals and archive of Capt. William Carmichael (from
Skerries, Co. Dublin, Irish Army, including War of Independence and
Emergency National Service medals; an extensive kit of an Irish Free
State Officer including sword, uniform jacket, peaked officer’s cap, side
cap, Sam Browne belts with holsters, sword hanger and ammunition
pouches; leather gaiters; neckties and balaclava helmets. Also cap
badges, rank badges, shoulder flashes and buttons; together with archive
material including correspondence relating to application for a Military
Service Pension, original photographs and extensive material relating to
army life. A unique collection of Irish Army militaria spanning the most
important formative years of the independent Irish State.
€
3,000-
€
5,000 (£2,400-£4,000 approx)
574
1939-46 Emergency National Service Medal
An Irish Emergency Medal with bar, for service in an 26ú Cathlan, the
26th Battalion (this battalion consisted almost entirely of ex-IRA
members and was part of the 2nd Line Volunteer Force).
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
575
Emergency Medals 1939-1945
A 2nd Line Volunteer Reserve medal and an Air Raid Precautions
Organisation Medal. (2)
The 2nd Line Volunteer Reserve consisted of infantry field engineers and
medical units ,mainly of mature years who replaced the peacetime
reserves who were called up for full time service. The Air Raid
Precautions Organisation was a civilian defence, rescue warden and fire
service established in 1943.
€
120-
€
150 (£100-£120 approx)
576
1939 - 1945 Irish Emergency, captured Luftwaffe airman’s ‘Gravity’
knife and his captor’s Emergency medal
An Irish Emergency Medal with two bars, for service in Na Forsaí
Cosanta, The Defence Forces to Capt. James Neary, boxed; and a German
Luftwaffe ‘gravity’ knife; together with various items of officer’s kit
including whistle, ammunition pouch, etc. Also two Irish Army
Commissions to James Neary’s signed by Eamon de Valera, Oscar Traynor
and one each by Douglas Hyde and Sean T. O’Kelly and a photograph of
an army wedding.
As an army Lieutenant, James Neary arrested a German airman who
crash-landed on a beach in Wexford. The knife was given to him as a
present by the airman who eventually married and settled in Ireland.
€
400-
€
600 (£320-£480 approx)
577
Royal Tyrone Regiment medal.
ROYAL TYRONE REGIMENT, white metal, obverse the Irish harp ensigned
with a royal crown surrounded by the legend ‘God save the King’, reverse
‘For Soldierly Merit, Royal Tyrone Regt.’ with loop suspension reverse,
very fine, couple edge knocks.
Provenance: With Christopher Eimer, The Sicilian Gallery, London, 1980.
(Receipt accompanies this lot).
This militia regiment was embodied in 1793 in County Tyrone, and was
known as the ‘2nd, or Royal Tyrone Regiment of Militia,’ a title it held till
1855. The Regimental HQ was in Strabane, the CO was The Marquis of
Abercorn. It was regularly disembodied only to be reinstated for various
conflicts including the Napoleonic Wars, Crimean War and the Indian
Mutiny. The regiment received its Fusilier title in April 1855 becoming
the Royal Tyrone Fusilier Regiment of Militia and was later to become
part of the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
€
200-
€
300 (£160-£240 approx)
578
Wexford sailor’s Arctic and Crimean medals
Arctic Medal group of four awarded to Captain’s Coxswain Joseph
Randall, comprising; Arctic Medal named to Randall on board HMS
Herald (involved in the search for Franklin), the Crimea Medal named to
Randall on board HMS Vengeance with Sebastopol clasp, Baltic Medal
named to Randall on board HMGB Hind and the Turkish Crimea Medal,
un-named, presented in a glazed frame with a portrait of the recipient
to centre..
Joseph Randall was born in Wexford in 1821. He joined the Navy in 1842
and sailed as Able Seaman onboard HMS Herald in her search for
Franklin’s lost expedition
€
1,000-
€
1,500 (£800-£1,200 approx)
579
1854 Crimean War Medal with Sebastopol bar.
Inscribed to John Hocter, 89th Regiment, The Princess Victoria’s
Regiment.
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
578