Watch List notes:

*Canada General Service, 1866-70, single clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Pte. R. Donaghy 4th Chasseurs), official correction to name, extremely fine. Offered with copied roll confirming the recipient as Richard Donaghy, with the above entitlement. The original roll held by the Canadian National Archives confirms that the recipient was present and serving in Canada between June and July 1866 at St Arnaud at the north east point of Lake Champlain, and that he was from nearby Montreal. The Canadian Chasseurs (Chasseurs Canadiens), a Volunteer Militia unit, was raised in November 1861 by Judge Michel Coursol, a leading Montreal jurist who led them against the Fenian Raids of 1866 by Irish Republicans based in the U.S.A., many of them former Union soldiers in the American Civil War. It is interesting to note someone with an Irish surname serving with a predominantly French-Canadian unit and in action against Irish Republicans on Canadian soil. (£200-250)