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Auction: 3016 - Orders, Medals, Decorations & Militaria
Lot: 402

A Sergeant's Uniform of the London Scottish.
A hodden-grey Full Dress doublet, with deep-blue collar, cuffs and piping, complete with collar-badges, Sergeant's chevrons outlined in buff braid on blue backing, and shoulder-titles in white metal inscribed T/14/COUNTY OF LONDON; a hodden-grey kilt with deep-blue fringe edge; a matching belted plaid, also with blue fringe; a blue glengarry with regimental badge in white metal, and a Sergeant's red sash (5)

This uniform was worn by Richard Hamilton-Baillie, the eldest son of a Northumberland clergyman, who was a chartered accountant and Sergeant in the London Scottish at the outbreak of war in 1914. He refused the offer of a temporary commission, and went to France with his battalion in October 1914, one of the first Territorials to do so. He narrowly escaped capture one night during the retreat from Mons, when his platoon found themselves intermingled with a German unit on the march, but managed to extricate themselves unnoticed. Hamilton-Baillie eventually accepted a commission in the Herefordshire Regiment (TA) and served with them in Egypt and Palestine. After the war, he became a Regular officer, first in the Cameronians and later in the Corps of Military Accountants, but was obliged to retire in 1922 as part of the reduction in size of the Army. He died in 1945.

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