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Echlins Vale Volunteers
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- (Irish Volunteers)
Echlins Volunteers. Raised XIX October 1778 (Echlin Vale Volunteers) Raised by Captain Charles Echlin 19th October 1778 The uniform was Scarlet, faced white.
This is on display in Down Cathedral, Downpatrick, Northern Ireland.
British War Medals
ECHLIN VALE VOLUNTEERS, 1778. Obverse, a shield, on which is a -harp. Above, a crown ; below, on a scroll, Echlin Volunteers, Vale. Reverse, above, Merit; below, Rewarded; in the centre, By Captain . Charles Echlin, 1778. A silver engraved
medal, with raised rim, in. diameter, and loop for suspension. In Colonel Gaskell\'s collection.
In 1779. Obverse, a double wreath; above, Pro patria; below, Echlin Vale Volunteers; in the centre a harp, crowned. Reverse, A Reward of Merit from
Captain Charles Echlin, June 7, 1779, to Mr. James Hogan. An oval, silver engraved medal, , with a raised flat border, engraved on both sides with
shamrocks and laurel-leaves.
