Five Medal to Major Henry Mark Healy

Five Medal to Major Henry Mark Healy, T.D., London Irish Rifles: 1914-15 Star (MAJOR H. M. HEALY. 18-LOND. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 and Victory Medal (MAJOR H. M. HEALY.); Territorial Decoration, Edward VII, reverse engraved "Captain & Hon. Major H. M. Healy LONDON IRISH RIFLES (18th County of London) 1909", hallmarked for London 1908; Volunteer Long Service Medal, Victoria (Lieut. H. M. HEALY. 16/Middx. V. R. C.), engraved; later court mounted; all good very fine.

Henry Mark Healy appears in the 1898 Army List as a Lieutenant from 22nd January, and his Victorian Volunteer Long Service Medal indicates that he must have enlisted c. 1880. He entered France with the 1st/18th London Regiment 09/03/1915. He took part in fighting at Festubert, May 1915, in the course of which he took command of the Battalion when Lieutenant Colonel Concannon D.S.O. was taken ill. Slightly wounded in the head by shell fire 26/05/1915. Ordered to the UK for transfer to the Territorial Force Reserve in August 1915, owing to severe dental and gastric complaints.

Provenance: The Paul Morrissey collection. NB. The collector reunited the T.D. with the other medals to this officer, in the 1980s.