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Auction: 9022 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 67

x A Group of Four to Private W. MacPherson, Seaforth Highlanders, Killed in Action, 21.4.1917 India General Service 1908-35, E.VII.R., one clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (6101 Pte. W. McPherson. [sic] 1st Bn. Sea Highrs:), minor edge bruising; 1914 Star, with Bar (6101 Pte. W. McPherson. [sic] 2/Sea: Highrs); British War and Victory Medals (6101 Pte. W. MacPherson. Seaforth.), lacquered, generally good very fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque, ´William McPherson´, and (2) Prize Winning Medals, the first being a white metal Regimental ´Cricket Shield´, reverse engraved ´Winners "G" Company 1st Seaforth Hrs Pte McPherson W´; the second being a white metal Winner´s Medal for the ´Murree Brewery Football Cup 1906´, engraved ´Pte. W. McPherson 1st Sea. Highrs.´, with top riband bar, additionally engraved ´Captain´ (lot) Estimate £ 300-350 6101 Private William MacPherson, born Inverness-shire, Scotland; served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion Seaforth Highlanders on the Western Front, from 23.8.1914; he was killed in action 21.4.1917, in the Balkans theatre of war, on the latter date his battalion were engaged for the battle of Istabulat; his obituary from The Inverness Courier, 11.5.1917, gives the following, ´´Pte William MacPherson, Seaforth Highlanders, who is reported killed in action on April 21, had seen fighting in India 1906-07 during a tribal rising. In the present War he was in the retreat from Mons and was wounded at Ypres in April 1915. He returned to France in October 1915, and from France he went to the Persian Gulf, where he was wounded in January. Again recovering in an Indian Hospital, he went back to the Persian Gulf, to recieve as it proved, his fatal wound. Pte MacPherson was 38 years of age. An elder brother is with the Cameron Highlanders in France. There mother resides at No.1 Lochalsh Road, Inverness.´´ He is commemorated on the Basra Memorial, Iraq.

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