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QSA (1) Talana (5321 Pte. M. Moran. Rl. Dublin Fus:);
[ KSA (2) ]

Provenance: Anglo-Boer War Anniversary Sale, Spink, October 1999.

Michael Moran was born in Dublin and attested there for the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on 24 December 1894, having previously served in the Regiment’s 4th (Militia) Battalion. He served with the 2nd Battalion in India from 15 May 1896 to 1 June 1897, and then in South Africa during the Boer War from 9 November 1899 to 1 March 1902. Posted missing on 22 October 1899 after the Battle of Talana Hill, he was not confirmed as having been taken Prisoner of War until the fate of Colonel Moller’s force became known, and he was released eight months later when Pretoria was taken.

Invalided to England but returned to SA in 1901-2.

He transferred to the Army Reserve on 23 November 1902, and was discharged on 23 December 1906, after 12 years’ service.

QSA: WO100/209p134 KSA: WO100/347p34

Entitled 'Captured at Dundee
B Squadron, 18th Hussars, which fell into the hands of the enemy.'

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=30#90607

RDF camp at Dundee

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=36#91373

Keeping their eyes open
A mounted infantry patrol of the Leicesters

Source: www.angloboerwar.com/forum/19-ephemera/3...-jack?start=36#91373

Picture courtesy of Noonan's

QSA (3) Talana, Tugela Heights, Relief of Ladysmith (5461 Pte. J. Dennehy, Rl. Dublin Fus.) edge bruising

John Dennehy was born in 1876 in the Parish of St Patrick’s, Cork, and enlisted into the Royal Dublin Fusiliers in 1895. He is listed in the Regimental History as having been wounded by a gun shot in the right hip at Hart’s Hill on 23 February 1900. Invalided January 1901.

DNW December 2000 £300.

Dennehy's QSA went for an astonishing hammer price of £1,900 at Noonans yesterday. That's around £2,450 with all the add ons.