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Queen’s South Africa Medal, 3 bars, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902, 6578 Pte M. Heaney, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
According to the medal roll Private Matthew Heaney served with 2nd Battalion and was invalided home during the campaign.
He later returned to earn the extra South Africa 1902 bar which was issued later.