World War Medals

Lying In Hospital, Dublin and died here too on the 2nd August 1936 due to the heart failure. He was from 62 North Kings Street, Dublin. Last years of his life he was in 12 St. He started his service age 21 at the 1888 with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Apparently he had many convictions and desertions. He was discharged 1896. Then he served with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, including war in South Africa where he earned his Queen South Africa Medal named to 2601 W. During the WW1 he enlisted age 46 to the Royal Engineers on the 17 May 1916, straight after the Easter Rising. He served in 12thbattalion, Royal Engineers in Egypt. His Service number was 163409 and British War Medal and Victory Medal are named to 163409 PNR. Following year he was sent back home and he was with the Labour Corps (service number 348318). After discharge he worked for a Guinness and his name appears on their archive as well. There are many pages of his service files available in FindMyPast. Some of them referring to his name Faulkner as alias. Also his list of convictions is pretty impressive as well. Medals are lose and not mounted. They will make nice display. Only Victory Medal has an original ribbon at the moment. Happy to post worldwide. Please let me know if you have any questions. The item “Boer/WW1 set of medals Irish Fus, RE. Dublin man, later worked for Guinness” is in sale since Thursday, November 1, 2018. This item is in the category “Collectables\Militaria\World War I (1914-1918)\Medals/ Ribbons”. The seller is “rdubfus” and is located in Dublin. This item can be shipped worldwide.