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Auction: 16002 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 8

A Scarce Boer War D.C.M. Group of Five to Squadron Sergeant Major D. McLaren, 2nd Life Guards, Attached 4th Imperial Yeomanry, Severely Wounded At Tigerkloof, 28.1.1901
a) Distinguished Conduct Medal, V.R. (995 S.Serjt:-Maj: D. McLaren. 4th. Imp: Yeo:)
b) Egypt 1882-89, dated, one clasp, Tel-el-Kebir (955. Tpr. D. McLaren. 2nd. Life Gds.)
c) Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (955 S.S.M. D. McLaren. 6th. Coy. 4th. Impl: Yeo:)
d) Army Long Service & G.C., V.R. (955 Sq: Cpl. Maj: D. McLaren. 2/Life Gds.)
e) Khedive's Star 1882 (955 Tpr. D. McLaren 2nd. Life Gds.), reverse contemporarily engraved in sans-serif capitals, traces of lacquer to first three, heavy pitting to Egypt medal, therefore nearly very fine or better, the DCM and QSA extremely fine (5)

D.C.M. London Gazette 27.9.1901 955 Squadron Sergeant Major D. McLaren (2nd Life Guards), 4th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, since deceased.

955 Squadron-Sergeant-Major D. McLaren, D.C.M., served with the 2nd Life Guards in Egypt, before being attached to the 6th (Staffordshire) Company, 4th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, for service in South Africa; he was severely wounded at Tigerkloof, 28.1.1901; and died of disease in Bethlehem, 21.3.1901.

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