PRIVATE J. GUNN, 1ST BATTALION ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS. 1914 Star and bar (7733 Private, Royal Irish Fusiliers). Copy bar, otherwise Extremely Fine.

PRIVATE J. GUNN, 1ST BATTALION ROYAL IRISH FUSILIERS. 1914 Star and bar (7733 Private, Royal Irish Fusiliers). Copy bar, otherwise Extremely Fine.

Medal accompanied by photocopied Medal Index Card, which confirms that Private Joseph Gunn first entered a theatre of active operations on 22/8/1914 (the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers sailed for France as a unit on 22/8/1914, landing at Boulogne the following day). Gunn saw service initially as 7733 Private, Royal Irish Fusiliers and subsequently as 7040115 Private, Royal Irish Fusiliers. M.I.C. notes Private Gunn as being taken prisoner of war during WW1 and also confirms as seeing post-WW1 service with the Royal Irish Fusiliers, seeing service in the Middle East and being awarded the General Service Medal with clasps Iraq and NW Persia. His home address was 5 Montague Terrace, Glasgow.