A good Punjab Frontier operations Tirah Field Force, Boer War Orange Free State and Transvaal operations and Great War Western Front group awarded to Private, later Serjeant G.F. Burgoyne, 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, later 3rd Battalion, London Regiment who would see service during the Punjab Frontier operations which lasted from 10th June 1897 to 6th April 1898 as well as part of the Tirah Field Force, he would later be present in South Africa during the Boer War where he would be present in operations in Orange Free State and Transvaal before later seeing service on the Western Front during the Great War, where he arrived on 6th January 1915 and was wounded by a shell wound to the right leg on 25th July 1915, before eventually being discharged on 18th January 1918, having later served with the Labour Corps.
Group of 5: India General Service Medal 1895-1902, 2 Clasps: Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98; (4861 Pte. G.F. Burgoyne, 2d Bn Ryl Innis Fus.) Queen’s South Africa Medal 1899-1902, 3 Clasps: Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901; top bar a tailor’s copy; (4861 PTE. G. BURGOYNE. RL. INNIS:FUS.) 1914-1915 Star; (1753 L-CPL G.F. BURGOYNE. 3-LOND. R.) British War Medal and Victory Medal; (1753 SJT. G.F BURGOYNE. 3-LOND. R.)
Condition: contact wear, top bar of QSA a tailor’s copy, Very Fine
George Frederick Burgoyne was born in St. Pancras, Tottenham in around 1875 and having enlisted would see service as a Private (No. 4861) with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers including during the Punjab Frontier operations which lasted from 10th June 1897 to 6th April 1898 as well as the operations with the Tirah Field Force and then subsequently in the Boer War in South Africa where he would see service on operations in Orange Free State and Transvaal.
By the time of the 1911 census Burgoyne was employed as an Assistant Printer and was noted as living at 22 Crowland Road, Tottenham. Recalled for the Great War, he would see service as a Lance Corporal, later Serjeant (No. 1753) with the 3rd Battalion, London Regiment arriving on the Western Front on 6th January 1915, wounded by a shell wound to the right leg on 25th July 1915 and eventually being discharged due to wounds from the Labour Corps with whom he had been serving as a Serjeant (No. 86406) on 18th January 1918.
After the Great War he would live at 48 Seaford Road, Tottenham before dying in North Middlesex County Hospital on 11th December 1938.
