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Auction: 323 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 732

A 1916 Medal Group of Four Attributed to Miss Bridget Connolly, Cumann na mBan, Who Served During the 1916 Easter Rising with the General Post Office Garrison
1916 Medal, unnamed as issued, with integral top riband bar; General Service Medal 1917-21, combatant's version with Comrac Bar, unnamed as issued, with integral top riband bar; 1916-66 Easter Rising Anniversary Commemorative Medal, silver-gilt (Hallmarks for Dublin 1966), unnamed as issued, with integral top riband bar; 1921-71 Truce Anniversary Commemorative Medal, unnamed as issued, with integral top riband bar, nearly extremely fine, with the following original documents:
- Invitation to sign the Easter Week Roll, dated November 1935
- Invitation to sign the Easter Week Roll, dated February 1936
- Notification of her number on the Easter Roll, dated May 1936
- Invitation Letter, dated June 1936
- Pension Notification and calculation letter, dated October 1936, and follow-up letter, dated November 1936
- 3 Pension Award Certificates
- Pension Declaration for 1969
- Insurance Document from 1939
- Letter enclosing 1916 Riband, with Riband
- Invitation Card for the 1966 G.P.O. Commemoration
- Invitation Card to the 1966 Garden of Remembrance Opening
- Exam Results letter, dated 1909
- 2 Irish Passports
- Portrait drawing of the recipient
- Various tickets and photographs (4)

Miss Bridget Connolly was born in Co. Carlow in May 1890, and educated at St. Vincent's Convent School, Dublin. Enlisting in the Cumann na mBan, an Irish republican women's paramilitary organisation formed in Dublin in April 1914, she served during the 1916 Easter Rising as part of the General Post Office Garrison, and additionally saw further service during the Anglo-Irish War and the Civil War. She is number 332 in the Easter Week Roll for the G.P.O. Garrison.

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