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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 7

A Great War 1915 'Ypres' D.C.M. Group of Six to Corporal J. Turnbull, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, G.V.R. (1850 Pte. J. Turnbull. 7/A. & S. Hdrs - T.F.), '7' officially corrected
b) 1914-15 Star (1850. Pte. J. Turnbull. A & S. Highrs.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (1850 Cpl. J. Turnbull. A. & S. H.)
d) Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (32050 Cpl. J. Turnbull. D.C.M. 7-A. & S. H.)
e) Russia, Imperial, Medal of St. George for Bravery, Third Class, silver, reverse officially numbered '22156', and edge engraved '1850 Pte. J. Turnbull 7/Arg. & Suth. Highrs.', light contact marks throughout, very fine (6)

D.C.M. London Gazette 23.6.1915 1850 Private J. Turnbull, 9th (The Dumbartonshire) Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Territorial Force, 'For gallant conduct and initiative in collecting a party of twelve men, there being no Non-commissioned Officer near by, and in taking charge of, and leading them forward, being himself severely wounded.'

Russia, Medal of St. George, Third Class, London Gazette 25.8.1915 1850 Private James Turnbull, 7th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, Territorial Force

1850 Corporal James Turnbull, D.C.M., born Clackmannan, Scotland; was employed as a Miner prior to the outbreak of the Great War; having joined the Territorial Forces in 1913, he was mobilised with the 1/7th Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in August 1914; he served with the battalion on the Western Front, from December 1914; the battalion took part in actions at St. Julien, Frezenberg and Bellewarde as part of the Battle of Ypres, 1915; Turnbull received a gunshot wound to his groin, 26.4.1915; the 1/7th Battalion temporarily amalgamated with the 1/9th Battalion, May-July 1915 (probably explaining the discrepancy between the battalion number on the D.C.M. and that which appears in the London Gazette); the battalion served as part of the 154th Brigade, 51st Highland Division from March 1916; advanced Corporal 12.4.1916; Turnbull was subject to a Court of Enquiry, 6.6.1916, having accidentally wounded himself the day before; he was immediately cleared, and his account of events was thus, 'about mid-day today I was N.C.O. in charge of a forward post in front of the firing line. Before going forward I put a round into the breech of my rifle as the Germans are only a short distance away. It had been raining and my rifle was wet. I was wiping water off, and must have touched the trigger. The bullet went through my right hand'; he served with the battalion throughout the 1916 Somme campaign; transferred to 16th Scottish Rifles, January 1917; discharged 15.4.1919 (Territorial Efficiency Medal August 1923).

Provenance: Taylor Collection, Christie, November 1990

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