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Auction: 26003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 169

Eight: Lieutenant-Colonel M. J. D. Drummond, Seaforth Highlanders, who commanded the 19th (Kenya) Battalion, King's African Rifles during the Second World War and latterly became a Senior Barrister

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1930-31 (Lieut. M. J. D. Drummond. Seaforth Highrs.), officially re-impressed naming; 1939-45 Star; Africa Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, these last five impressed Boots-style 'Major M. J. D. Drummond Seaforth Highrs'; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya (Major M. J. D. Drummond. Seaforth.); Coronation 1937 (Major M. J. D. Drummond Seaforth Highrs.), this last with privately impressed naming, mounted as worn and housed in A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd case, good very fine (8)

Provenance:
Spink, November 2008.

Maurice James David Drummond was born at The Curragh on 17 November 1907, the son of Colonel The Hon. Sir Maurice Drummond K.B.E. C.M.G. D.S.O. of Craighbeithe, Dunkeld, Perthshire, a grandson of the 8th Viscount Strathallan and a scion of the banking dynasty. Young Drummond was educated at Eton College and then had the option to go into the family bank but instead chose to go to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant into the Seaforth Highlanders in September 1927.

First seeing active service on the North-West Frontier (Medal & clasp), he was then posted to the Colonial Office in 1935. Drummond served with the Royal West African Frontier Force and the 1st Battalion, Nigeria Regiment until March 1939. With the outbreak of the Second World War, he landed at Kaduna in August 1939 and saw service in East Africa, firstly as an Instructor at the Tactical School and thence as Officer Commanding (acting Lieutenant-Colonel) of the 19th (Kenya) Battalion, King's African Rifles from December 1942-July 1943, during which they served on Madagascar replacing the 5th Battalion.

Returned home, Drummond was made Second-in-Command of the 2nd Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders and served with them in North-West Europe from June 1944. Having seen further action in Malaya, Drummond was posted to the St Andrews OTC in March 1952 and retired in August 1955.

Drummond trained as a Barrister and was called to the Bar at Lincoln's Inn in July 1952, under Lord Rawlinson and became a Senior Legal Assistant in the Civil Service. Settling at 8 Kensington Park Gardens, Drummond died on 22 November 2007; sold together with copied Service Record and research, including a lengthy interview of his career undertaken by the IWM, the transcript accompanies the Lot.

For his miniature dress medals, please see Lot 405.

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Estimate
£500 to £700

Starting price
£450