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Auction: 15002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 261

Highland Society´s Medal for Egypt 1801, 49mm, bronze, edge inscribed 'By the Highland Society of London', minor edge bruising, good very fine, mounted in a double-sided glazed display frame along with the accompanying transmission letter from the Royal Highland Society, named to Captain McRae [sic] Chisholm, dated 9.5.1881, and a copy of his reply

Captain Archibald Macra Chisholm, born Beauly, Inverness, 1824; Commissioned Ensign, Royal Highlanders, April 1842; promoted Lieutenant, April 1846; Captain, June 1854; served with the Regiment in the Crimean War at Scutari and Varna; retired by sale of his Commission, April 1855; awarded the Highland Society Medal in recognition of his services in connection with the Royal Highlanders, May 1881, having been a member of the Society since 1843; died, October 1897.

The Highland and Agricultural Society's Medals were struck in 1801 and were intended to be awarded to the Royal Highlanders on the Regiment's return from Egypt, where, at Alexandria on the 21.3.1801, the Regiment captured a standard from the French Invincible Legion. However, the Government intervened, and would not allow the Society to carry out its intention, although some medals were presented to the next of kin of those who had been killed. Subsequently, the residual stock of medals was distributed by the Society over the next century to persons connected to the Royal Highlanders as a keepsake.

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Estimate
£300 to £400