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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 53

Pair: Sergeant Major H. Lee, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
East and West Africa 1887-1900, one clasp, Sierra Leone 1898-99 (3238 C.Sgt. H. Lee, West Africa Regt.); Coronation 1902, bronze, contact marks to first, good very fine (2)

3238 Sergeant Major Henry Lee, born Ackerton, Limerick, 1870; enlisted in the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, May 1890; promoted Corporal, May 1891; Sergeant, July 1894; Colour Sergeant, March 1897; posted to the West Africa Regiment for service in Sierra Leone, April 1898; served in West Africa, December 1898 to December 1901; re-engaged with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at Freetown, Sierra Leone, July 1899; awarded Coronation Medal 1902; promoted Sergeant Major, December 1903; awarded L.S. & G.C., 1909; discharged, February 1909, after 18 years and 275 days with the Colours.

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