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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 260

Wauchope Medal, silver, the reverse engraved 'Pte. W. Wilson. 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; together with the recipient's Pocket Testament League New Testament Bible

S/8069 Private William Wilson, born Maxwelltown, Dumfriesshire; enlisted in the Royal Highlanders and served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 6.7.1915; 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; wounded in this action; discharged as a result of his wounds, 31.12.1918; died as a result of influenza and bronchitis brought on as a result of 'septic poisoning from an old shrapnel wound', and is buried in Drunscore Parish Churchyard, Dumfriesshire.

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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