Army Long Service & Good Conduct Medal. Victorian 3rd issue (Sergt. J. Hanley. Ch: Wdr. Mily: Prison Thayetmyo.)

Confirmed as the recipients only medal issuance / entitlement in a career that spanned 40 years, with the majority spent in British India including Burma, where the recipient is recorded to have served at numerous Military Prisons, and Detention Barracks including service at Thayetmyo, Burma; Peshawar, North West Frontier Province (Pakistan) and Lucknow, India

Medal Verification: Sergeant 'Chief Warder' John Hanley (late 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers) is confirmed entitled to the award of the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal that is recorded to have been awarded to him on 30 September 1899, per the Indian Army Order published at Fort William, Calcutta, India. on date 8 December 1899

Sold with hardcopy photocopied extract of the respective Indian Army Order

Officers Service Papers: The papers for Major (Commissary) John Hanley are extant and accessible at The British Library former India Office Collections, file reference IOR/L/MIL/14/5446
IOR/L/MIL/14/5446

John Hanly was commissioned into the British Indian Army, 'Indian Miscellaneous List' on 1 January 1913, he was promoted Major (Commissary) on 5 January 1917 and retired from the British Indian Army on 11 October 1920

John Hanly served more than 21 years as a Military Gaoler, serving at numerous Military Prisons & Detention Barracks, as a Chief Warder and Officer Commanding - his various postings can be traced in the Indian Army Lists - and in his extant service papers

Major (Commissary) John Hanly was born in Ireland on 4 November 1861. He joined the British Army and was posted to the 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The 2/Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers - including John Hanly - embarked embarked for British India (including Burma) in 1888. On 11 September 1891, while stationed at Secunderabad (the British cantonment for Hyderabad, then in Madras Presidency) John Hanly (shown as 29 years of age) and holding the rank of Corporal, married Mary Ann Guyman (20 years of age) daughter of John Guyman. The couple were subsequently blessed with five children born in various military stations across the Indian Subcontinent, representing the subsequent postings of John Hanly. The children we haev traced John Joseph Hanly (born 27  Thayetmyo, August 1894 = father shown as Sergeant 2 R.I.F.); Patrick William Hanly (born 9 June 189, Lucknow, India); Kathleen Ellen Bridget Hanly (20 August 1897, Lucknow, India); Francis Charles Hanly (16 February 1904, Lucknow, India) and Margaret Mary Hanly (2 October 1905 Peshawar, North West Frontier Province, India) another daughter Juliet Catherine Hanly is reported to have been born circa 1905-06

Sadly the eldest son of Major Hanly, was Killed-in-Action, 16 May 1915, in France at which time he was serving with his father's old battalion & regiment - The Skins - vis No. 10286 Corporal John Joseph Hanly, 2nd Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. The body of Private Hanly was never recovered form the battlefield, however the memory of the life and self sacrifice of John Joseph Hanly is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission upon a memorial panel at the Le Touret Memorial located in France. The CWGC records that fallen was the son of Maj. John Hanly and M. A. Hanly, of 25, The Mall Rd., Lucknow, India. For his service in the Great War Corporal John Joseph Hanly had qualified for a 1914 Star, British War Medal and Interallied Victory Medal

At the age of 83 years - having lived and worked in British India for more then 60 years - Major John Hanly, left British India to complete his retirement in the United Kingdom. Passenger shipping manifests record that he embarked at Bombay aboard the P & O.S.N S. steamer S.S. Srathaird together with his daughters Kathleen and Margaret, the family disembarking at Southampton, England on, 18 August 1946. The intended permanent place of residence of Major Hanly was stated to be, 28 Norwich Avenue, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England

An extremely rare seen Long Service Good Conduct medal to the Thayetmyo Prison in Burma

Condition: EF

Code: 25558