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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 606

Five: Company Quarter-Master Sergeant Hugh Cameron, Highland Light Infantry

1914-15 Star (369 C.Q.M. Sjt. H. Cameron. High: L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (369 C. Sjt. H. Cameron. High. L.I.); Volunteer Force Long Service, E. VII. R. (5335 Sjt: H. Cameron. 1st V.B. H'Land L.I.); Territorial Force Efficiency, G. V. R. (369 C.S.Mjr H. Cameron 5/High: L.I.), mounted Ordinary-Style for display, together with a silver-gilt and enamel fob-style shooting medal attached to ribands between fourth and fifth, generally good very fine (5)

A long-serving senior N.C.O., Hugh Cameron first saw active service with 1/5th Highland Light Infantry in the Balkans, entering that theatre of operations on 2 July 1915 and was later discharged with entitlement to a Silver War Badge. The Regimental History notes him as Company Quarter-Master Sergeant of 'C' Coy, 5th Battalion (The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918 refers), and he earned his Volunteer Force Long Service medal with the 1st Battalion in 1906.
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