1900, 1903 AND 1911 VISIT TO IRELAND MEDALS AWARDED TO CONSTABLE R. SLOAN, DUBLIN METROPOLITAN POLICE, WHO SUBSEQUENTLY SAW SERVICE WITH THE IRISH GUARDS AND MILITARY FOOT POLICE DURING WW1.
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THE 1900, 1903 AND 1911 VISIT TO IRELAND MEDALS AWARDED TO CONSTABLE R. SLOAN, DUBLIN METROPOLITAN POLICE, WHO SUBSEQUENTLY SAW SERVICE WITH THE IRISH GUARDS AND MILITARY FOOT POLICE DURING WW1. Three: Visit to Ireland Medal 1900 (officially engraved: P.C. R. SLOAN. D.M.P.) Visit to Ireland Medal 1903 (officially engraved: P.C. R. SLOAN. D.M.P.) Visit to Ireland Medal 1911 (unnamed, as issued). 1900 and 1903 Visit medals with original top suspender brooch bar, 1911 medal with original brooch suspender, generally Good Very Fine to Almost Extremely Fine.
Group accompanied by birth details, copied extract from Jim Herlihy’s alphabetical list of Dublin Metropolitan Police officers, copied WW1 Medal Index card, WW1 medal rolls, copied extracts from newspapers of the period giving details of members of the D.M.P. volunteering for active service with the Irish Guards and departure for the front, and extract from 1901 census return. Medal rolls confirm entitlement to 1914-15 Star trio.
Robert Sloan was born in 1877 in Killeeshill, Aughnacloy, Co. Tyrone. A Protestant, he was 20 years of age at the time of enlistment into the D.M.P., stood some 6 feet and 1/8 inches tall and at the time of enlistment gave his trade as that of farmer. Sloan was recommended for the D.M.P. by Charles Stanley, J.P. and saw service with “A” Division from 7/5/1897. His D.M.P. service record records him as having been “dismissed” on 31/3/1915 (the term “dismissed” as used here was an administrative phrase applied to all D.M.P. members who volunteered for active service during WW1).
Sloan is recorded in the 1911 census as being a 33 year old, unmarried Police Constable, resident at Kevin Street Police Barracks, Dublin. Sloan’s WW1 Medal Index card confirms that he first saw active service during WW1 as 1290 Private, Irish Guards, in France, entering that thetre of operations on 29/9/1915, and that he subsequently saw service as P.17890 Private, Military Foot Police. He was transferred to the Class Z Reserve on 25/2/1919.
Newspaper reports of the period confirm Sloan as one of the volunteers who departed Kevin Street Police barracks on Tuesday 6/4/1915 for active service, being seen off by an honour guard being drawn from all divisions of the Dublin Metropolitan Police.
A total of 54 D.M.P. men saw active service with the colours during WW1, with a variety of regiments. Of these 54 men, 4 were killed in action or died of wounds.