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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 142

Seven: Colonel G. Laird, 9th Battalion (Glasgow Higlanders), Highland Light Infantry, late Private, Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (328083 Pte. G. Laird. R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (328083 Pte. G. Laird. R.A.M.C.); 1939-45 Star, copy; Defence and War Medals 1939-35; Efficiency Decoration, Territorial, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated '1942', with Additional Service Bar, mounted as worn, this last adapted for mounting, very fine (7)

George Laird, a native Glasgow, was born in February 1888, a scion of the family of local Auctioneers. An architect by trade, he served in the Balkans from 18 October 1915. Re-joining the Territorials post-war, he was made 2nd Lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry on 13 April 1920, promoted Lieutenant on 14 July 1923 and advanced Captain on 1 November 1929. He had the honour to command the Guard of Honour for The King upon his visit to Glasgow. Made Major on 28 March 1931, he was promoted Lieutenant-Colonel on 5 June 1942, the same year in which his T.D. was awarded (London Gazette 17 November 1942, refers). It appears he may have served overseas with the 2nd Battalion during the opening stages of the Second World War. He retired in March 1964 and died in March 1973; sold together with copied research and two invoices from the family business.

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£210

Starting price
£110