Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 458
Pair: Driver W.H. Small, Army Service Corps 1914-15 Star (T3-029400 Dvr. W.R. Small. A.S.C.); Victory Medal (029400 Dvr. W.H. Small. A.S.C.), one digit of number double struck on first, nearly very fine Pair: Second Lieutenant A.A. Matheson, Army Service Corps, Late Lovat´s Scouts British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A.A. Matheson), nearly extremely fine Pair: Private R.W.W. Bollen, 7th Dragoon Guards British War and Victory Medals (D-17121 Pte. R.W.W. Bollen. 7-D. Gds.), nearly very fine Pair: Private S.C. McWilliam, Machine Gun Corps, Late Gordon Highlanders British War and Victory Medals (130765 Pte. S.C. Mc William. M.G.C.), good very fine Pair: First Engineer William Bain British War Medal (William Bain); Mercantile Marine War Medal (William Bain), extremely fine (10) Estimate £ 80-100 Second Lieutenant Archibald Angus Matheson, born 1875; served during the Great War as a Sergeant in Lovat´´s Scouts, 1914-16; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, Army Service Corps, 1916; died 20.12.1917, and is buried in St. Sever Cemetery, Rouen, France. 130765 Private Samuel Chisholm McWilliam enlisted as 19710 Private, 3rd Battalion, Gordon Highlanders; transferred to the Machine Gun Corps and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War; died at home, 14.5.1921, and is buried in Rerrick Parish Churchyard, Kirkcudbrightshire. First Engineer William Bain served in the 2,871 ton S.S. Isleworth during the Great War; killed 30.4.1918, when, bound from Bilbao to Middlesbrough, Isleworth was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine three miles S.W. of Ventnor, Isle of Wight, with the loss of 29 lives, and is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, London.
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