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Auction: 19002 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 85

(x) Pair: Colour-Sergeant W. Walsh, Home Service (Garrison) Battalion, Northamptonshire Regiment, late King's Royal Rifle Corps

Afghanistan 1878-80, no clasp (No.1906. Sergt. W. Walsh. 2nd. Bn. K.R.R. Corps.); Army L.S. & G.C., V.R., small letter reverse (1906 Cr. Sergt. W. Walsh. K.R.Rif:C.), contact marks to first, nearly very fine (2)

William Walsh was born in 1852 at Marylebone, London, and attested for the 2nd Battalion, 60th Rifles, at Westminster on 10 August 1870, giving his trade as carpenter. Walsh travelled to India aboard the troopship H.M.S. Crocodile, arriving on Christmas Day 1870, being stationed at Peshawar from 19 February 1871 and Nowshera in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province from 18 January 1972. Promoted Sergeant on 19 July 1876, he returned home to Winchester in 1880 but was placed before the Invaliding Board suffering from health complaints resulting in stricture of the urethra; he left the regiment shortly thereafter, his conduct noted as 'good'.

During the Great War Walsh re-enlisted in the King's Royal Rifle Corps at Winchester on 29 September 1914, aged 62 years, and was transferred on 4 August 1916 to the 2nd Garrison Battalion of the Northamptonshire Regiment, but was later discharged on 20 February 1917, no longer physically fit for war service on account of 'old age'. Walsh returned home to his wife Ellen, living at 232 Upper Richmond Road, East Sheen, London; sold together with two brass cap badges for the Northamptonshire Regiment and Royal Defence Corps.


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