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Ireland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish Valour

Ireland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish ValourIreland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish Valour
Ireland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish ValourIreland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish Valour
Ireland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish ValourIreland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish Valour
Ireland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish ValourIreland: Boer War: Visit of Queen Victoria / To Commemorate Irish Valour
Form: Circular. Larger medals crimped for loop to a ring. Smaller silver medal attached loop to a ring for a woven orange-green ribbon. Small bronze medal attached loop.
By: Edmund Johnson, Ltd. Grafton St., Dublin
Date: 1900
Ref:  BHM: 3660; Eimer: 1841; Laidlaw: 0460;
Variations:
SizeMetalMassValue
31.6 mmGilded Bronze12.0 gm$110
31.6 mmBronze with loop11.6 gm$80
17 mmSilver with loop$130
20 mmBrass with loop$50

Edge: Plain.

Obverse: Veiled and diademed bust of Queen Victoria, left. Signed: "JOHNSON. DUBLIN" on the larger medals or: "JOHNSON" on the smaller medals below the truncation. Legend above: "VISIT OF H.M QUEEN VICTORIA TO IRELAND" and between stops below: "1900".

Reverse: Within ropework on a band ornamented with four masks, a folded ribbon decorated around with shamrocks, inscribed: "TO / COMMEMORATE / IRISH / VALOUR". The outer ropework is not present on the smaller medals.

Notes: Queen Victoria visited the city of Dublin in Ireland during the month of April 1900. There she paid tribute the valour of loyal Irishmen who were fighting in the Boer War. She was then 80 years old and died the following year.

It is believed that the medals were worn on parade by those soldiers who had returned from South Africa.

It should be noted that other Irishmen, not loyal to Britain, were fighting on the Boer side.

Laidlaw 0706 is similar but is for "BRITISH VALOUR".