PRE WW1 BRITISH ARMY AFGHANISTAN MEDAL WITH CLASP KABUL PTE LYNCH 9th REGIMENT

Offered is an original Afghanistan Medal (1878-1880) with clasp KABUL, being period engraved 1447 P^TE. J. LYNCH.2/9^TH FOOT. Comes with copy Service papers, medal roll & discharge book.

John Lynch was born in 1822 at Ratoath, Ashbourn, Meath, Ireland. He enlisted on the 1/1/1866 with the 9^th Regiment of Foot and served with them for his entire 21 years’ service. He was 24-year-old at the time, illiterate & working as a labourer.

Served Home: 1/1/1866 – 2/4/66. China & Japan. 3/4/66 – 21/7/68. Home 22/7/68 – 22/10/74. East Indies 23/10/74 – 27/1/87. Field service Afghanistan & Kabul. 1/10/79 – 24/12/79.Home 28/1/87 – 2/2/87. Promoted Cpl 1/7/73. Reduced 29/9/1877. For absence and drunkenness. Discharged Gosport termination of enlistment.

Service papers show a long list of garrison postings through his service in England, Japan, India & Afghanistan.

9^th Royal Norfolk Regiment: In 1866 it landed at Yokohama, Japan as part of the British garrison stationed there in protection of British commercial and diplomatic interests in the recently opened treaty port. The regiment saw action at Kabul in 1879 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War. The regiment became The Norfolk Regiment on 1 July 1881.