Five: Company Quartermaster Sergeant A. MacLean, Royal Canadian Garrison Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg (8131 Pte. A. McLean, Rl. Candn. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals (1257524 B.Q.M. Sjt., C.G.A.); Permanent Forces of the Empire Beyond the Seas L.S. & G.C., G.V.R. (C.Q.M.S. Aneas McLean, R.C.A.); Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (C.Q.M.S. A. McLean, R.C.G.A.) cleaned and mounted court style, edge nick to the fourth, otherwise very fine or better (5) £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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L.S. & G.C. medal notified in Government Order 127 of 15 October 1918.

M.S.M. notified in Government Order 81 of 15 June 1931, and in the Canada Gazette of 4 July 1931.

Aeneas MacLean was born on 6 July 1874, at Picton, King’s County, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia. He was already in the Militia when he enlisted into the 2nd Special Service Battalion on 1 November 1899, for service in the Boer War, earning the medal with 4 clasps which he signed for on 17 July 1901. Returning to Canada he continued to serve in the Militia and during the Great War he was attested for the C.E.F. on 18 July 1916, being appointed a Battery Quartermaster Sergeant in No. 8 Siege Battery, Canadian Garrison Artillery. He arrived in England on 6 October 1916 in the S.S. Laconia, was at Witley Camp and then ‘in the field’. Admitted to the Canadian Special Hospital at Lenham in Kent on 17 April 1918, he was discharged on 25 May to the Hospital Ship Araguaya at Liverpool for transfer tio the Pine Hill Military Hospital at Halifax on 19 June 1918 with suspected Tuberculosis. McLean was discharged ‘medically unfit’ at Halifax on 23 August 1918. Aeneas McLean died on 12 March 1946, aged 71. Sold with comprehensive copied service records.