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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 389

A fine Boer War Medal to Private P. Browne, Royal Irish Regiment, who was wounded in the action at Sanna's Post

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein (2808 Pte. P. Browne, 1st. Rl. Irish Regt.), good very fine

Provenance: Spink, 2 March 1987.

Patrick Browne was born in 1868 at Wexford, Ireland. He attested for the Royal Irish Regiment at Clonmel on 26 April 1887, having seen service with the Irish Militia, and was posted to the 1st Battalion on 7 July 1887.

Seeing service in Rhodesia and at home, he transferred to South Africa at the outbreak of the Boer War as part of 'Cork' Company, 1st Mounted Infantry. Serving at Sanna's Post, Browne suffered a gunshot wound to the left heel, one of just three men of the Regiment to be wounded on that occasion. The wound rendered him permanently unfit and he was discharged on 30 November 1900, his conduct noted as 'very good'. He died in 1944; sold with copied service record.

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£280