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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 188

Pair: Second Lieutenant the Rev. D. McArthur, Royal Highlanders
British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. D. Mc Arthur), extremely fine, with the recipient's Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Dugald McArthur), all mounted in a fitted glazed display frame (3)

Second Lieutenant the Rev. Dugald McArthur, born March 1886; educated at Glasgow University (MA 1908, BD 1911); Ordained, 13.5.1913, and served as Minister of New Androssan Parish Church, Dumbartonshire; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Royal Highlanders, 5.9.1916; served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War in Mesopotamia from 22.3.1917; died of wounds received during the attack on the Turkish Redoubt at the Battle of Istabulat, 21.4.1917, and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

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