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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 428

Four: Major J.J. Gahagan, Royal Engineers Coronation 1911, unnamed as issued; Egypt 1882-89, dated, no clasp (14618. Sapr. J.J. Gahagan. C. Tp: R:E:), partially officially corrected; British War Medal (Q.M. & Major J.J. Gahagan.); Khedive´s Star1882, unnamed as issued, light pitting from Star, generally good very fine, mounted as worn in this order, together with a portrait photograph of the recipient in uniform (4) Estimate £ 200-240 Major John James Gahagan, born Cork, Ireland, August 1859, the son of Sergeant M. Gahagan, 48th Foot; enlisted in the Royal Engineers, November 1877; served in Egypt, August-November 1882; Company Sergeant Major Instructor, June 1889; Sergeant Major Instructor, May 1895; Commissioned as Quartermaster and Honorary Lieutenant, Royal Engineers, 23.4.1902, after 24 years and 158 days in the ranks; Captain, 20.4.1912; Major, 24.4.1917. Major Gahagan died at home in Havant, Hampshire, 14.6.1924. See also Lots 427 and 429.

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