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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 259

Wauchope Medal, silver, the reverse engraved 'L Corpl. J. Shirra. for Conspicuous Gallantry in the Battle Beyond Bagdad, March 14, 1917. Presented by Colonel A.G. Wauchope.', extremely fine, in Elkington, London, case of issue

S/4484 Lance Corporal John Shirra, born Stirling, Scotland; enlisted in the Royal Highlanders and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 14.7.1915, and wounded at the Battle of Loos, September 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; killed in action in the Persian Gulf theatre of War, 21.4.1917, and is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

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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