Dating of Photo -Lawrence O'Shea and his shorthand typist maybe.

[AlanBoyd]

Just to clarify, I was suggesting that the other medal was the QSA, not the one with 4 clasps (especially since he apparently had QSA with 2 clasps).

My guess is that the medal with 4 clasps is the Afghanistan Medal, since he claims to have been there.

[jim1]

Medal 1 might be a possible for the Afghan medal but not 3.

[AlanBoyd]

A report in the Islington Gazette 29th January 1913 of the funeral procession of Richard Samuel Hobdell, died 22nd January 1913 aged 66. (He was a tram worker who run over by a motor-van.)

Amongst the pall-bearers were Trooper Lawrence O'Shea, who served in the same regiment with deceased. [This would be the King's Royal Rifles.] They joined in 1875, and went through the Afghan campaign together. Another pall-bearer was Corporal Styles, also an Afghan campaigner. Both men, who wore their decorations yesterday, were with deceased on the march to Kandahar.

[AlanBoyd]

Medal 1 might be a possible for the Afghan medal but not 3.

Is there any rule or convention about the order that the medals were worn?

[jim1]

Awards for bravery took first place & then campaign medals in chronological order
so Afghan 1st. & then SA medal after that.

[AlanBoyd]

And what does first mean? In this photo which medal is being worn first? The medal on the wearer’s right, nearest the centre of his body or the one at the other end with the 4 clasps?

[jim1]

Sorry should have clarified.
Order starting from the centre of the body in other words left to right as you see them.

[AlanBoyd]

Thanks.

[AlanBoyd]

A candidate for the medal in the centre – the Kabul to Kandahar Star: