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A grenade with a French Imperial eagle and a wreath of laurel on the ball, surmounted by the Gaelic motto, Faugh-a-Ballagh ("Clear the Way"), the whole being set in a wreath of Shamrocks and surmounted by the Plume of the Prince of Wales. Recruiting area: the Ulster Counties of Armagh, Monaghan, and Cavan, and the Leinster County of Louth. Depôt: Armagh town.

The Sphinx, superscribed "Egypt." "Monte Video"; "Talavera"; "Barrosa"; "Java"; "Tarifa"; "Vittoria"; "Nivelle "; "Niagara"; "Orthes"; "Toulouse"; "Peninsula"; "Asia"; "Sevastopol"; "Tel-el-Kebir"; "Egypt, 1882, 1844"; "Relief of Ladysmith"; "South Africa, 1899–1902."