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Special Reserve Long Service and Good Conduct Medal, EVII, 1755 Pte. J. McCann, 4th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, a Boer War Veteran.
Pte McCann was present in the Boer War, with the 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, earning the Queen’s South Africa Medal, 2 bars for Cape Colony and Orange Free State and King’s South Africa Medal, 2 bars, the latter stating he was afterwards posted to the Militia Reserve.