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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 467

Royal Scots

A Great War M.M. awarded to Acting Lance-Corporal J. McGhie, 1/4th Battalion, Royal Scots (Queen's Edinburgh Rifles)
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Military Medal, G.V.R. (3578 Pte.-L. Cpl. J. McGhie, 4/Royal Scots), good very fine

M.M. London Gazette 11 February 1919.

A native of Auchendinny, McGhie first entered a theatre of war in 1916 or later. His Battalion was present in operations in Egypt and Palestine and was thence ordered to France in April 1918.

At the Second Battle of Gaza on 19 April 1917, 4/Royal Scots were part of the 156th Brigade attack towards Ali el Muntar, and thus to the right of the desperate and protracted fight for Outpost Hill. With the hill changing hands several times during the day, the 4/Royal Scots were forced to lay in the open for much of the day; unable to advance, over 130 men were killed and wounded.

McGhie was also entitled to the British War and Victory Medals, both of which were returned for amendment in 1921; his MIC refers.


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