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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 206

A Great War Group of Three to J. Robertson, Royal Highlanders, Killed in Action, 13.5.1915 1914 Star, with Bar (1338 Pte. J. Robertson. 2/R.Highrs); British War and Victory (1338 Pte. J. Robertson. R. Highrs.), very fine or better, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque, ´James Robertson´, this worn and pierced at 12 o´clock Estimate £ 200-240 1338 Private James Robertson, born Glasgow; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Royal Highlanders on the Western Front from 12.10.1914; he was killed in action 13.5.1915; on the 9th May the battalion, as part of the Bareilly Brigade, went into action at Aubers Ridge, suffering 8 officers and 266 other ranks killed; by the 13th they were back in action this time suffering 22 men killed; Robertson is commemorated on Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

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£300