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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 186

Pair: Private R. Queen, Royal Highlanders, Awarded a Wauchope Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry at the Battle of Mushaidie, 14.3.1917
1914-15 Star (3-4193. Pte. R. Queen, R. Highrs.); Victory Medal (3-4193 Pte. R. Queen. R. Highrs.), nearly very fine, with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Robert Queen); and Wauchope Medal, silver, the reverse engraved 'Pte. R. Queen. For Conspicuous Gallantry in the Battle Beyond Bagdad, March 14, 1917. Presented by Colonel A.G. Wauchope.' (3)

3-4193 Private Robert Queen, served with the 2nd Battalion Royal Highlanders during the Great War on the Western Front from 22.4.1915; awarded the Wauchope Medal for Conspicuous Gallantry for his services at the Battle of Mushaidie, 14.3.1917, in which the 2nd Battalion Royal Highlanders suffered over 40% casualties; died, 16.11.1918, and is buried in Beirut War Cemetery, Lebanon.

Approximately 70 Wauchope Medals were awarded to Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Highlanders during the Great War; 60 for gallantry at the Battles of Loos and Mushaidie (the 'Battle Beyond Baghdad'); and 10 to men who had specially distinguished themselves scouting in No Man's Land.

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