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1914-18: South Irish Horse tunic of Lieutenant Colonel Fred MacCabe

Currency:EUR Category:Collectibles Start Price:10.00 EUR Estimated At:600.00 - 800.00 EUR
1914-18: South Irish Horse tunic of Lieutenant Colonel Fred MacCabe

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Auction Date:2013 Jan 26 @ 13:00 (UTC+1)
Location:38 Molesworth Street, Dublin, Dublin, ., Ireland
An extremely desirable original late war officers tunic with South Irish Horse buttons by Henecy & Son of Dublin, overseas service stripes to cuff and attached medal ribbons of the Queen's South Africa Medal, 1914-15 Star and The Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem. Also with original attributing documents, Edward VII commission certificate promoting Frederick Faber MacCabe as a Surgeon Lieutenant on 14 September 1903 in the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry. Trinity College Latin vellum medical degree of MacCabe. 1937 South Irish Horse London reunion dinner menu with name of MacCabe noted and a pair of brass spurs. (5 items)Frederick Faber MacCabe was born in Waterford in 1868. He served as a civilian surgeon during the Boer War and was commissioned as medical officer to the South of Ireland Imperial Yeomanry in 1903. A man of many talents he also worked as a horse trainer at Glencairn House, Sandyford, Dublin and trained the famous horse Orby, owned by Richard Croker, to become the first Irish trained winner of the Epsom Derby. During the First World War he served as medical officer for the South Irish Horse on the Western Front from June 1915, being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel by 1918. He died in 1954.