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Auction: 23001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 437

Volunteer Force Long Service (India & the Colonies), G.V.R. (Pte. D. A. Wylie, Cal. Sco., A.F.I.), impressed naming, good very fine

David Angus Wylie was born at Perth, Scotland on 27 March 1882 and by 1901 he was a wine merchant's clerk living in Dundee. The previous year he had been appointed 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd (Dundee Highland) Volunteer Battalion, Black Watch, at the same time as his brother. Wylie went out to India aboard the Formosa in June 1906 and joined the Calcutta Scottish in around 1909. By 1915 he was listed as an Assistant for McLeod & Co, of Calcutta and was awarded his L.S. Medal by IAO No. 318 of 1929. He would perhaps have been too old, but it is worthwhile to note that members of the Calcutta Scottish assisted in Operation Creek in 1943. Wylie returned to England in March 1947 and died at Tunbridge Wells on 26 October 1962.

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