Description
Queen’s South Africa Medal, 3 bars, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, 5374 Private Albert McAuliffe, Lincolnshire Regiment, served as Sergeant during WW1.
Officially impressed: “5374 Pte. A. McAuliffe. 2nd Lincoln: Regt”
Some contact marking
Confirmed on the medal roll.
His Medal Index Card for WW1, records his further service initially as a Corporal and ending the war a Sergeant, for which he earned the 1914-15 Star Trio.
He saw service during the Boer War as part of the 2nd Battalion, Royal Lincolnshire Regiment.
The Battalion arrived onboard the Goorkha at the Cape in late January 1900, to form part of the 14th Brigade
He also served in the First World War, being initialled posted to Gallipoli during 1915 with the 6th Battalion Lincs Regt, as they landed near Lala Baba at Suvla Bay on the 7th August, his Medal Index Card noting entry in the 2b-Balkans theatre on 18th July 1915.
FIghting until December, the battalion was then wtihdrawn to Egypt and after some time on the Suez Canal Defences in early 1916, they were posted over to France on 17th June 1916 to reinforce the Third Army on The Somme.
They arrived there and by the 27th July had been in the front lines on the Somme taking part in the capture of the Wundt-Werk, Battle of Flers-Courcelette and the Battle of Thiepval.
They would see much further fighting through France until the armistice, during which Albert was advanced to Sergeant by the end of the war.
