Seven: Piper W. Lamont, King’s Own Scottish Borderers

1914-15 Star (9452 Pte., K.O. Sco. Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (9452 Pte., K.O.S.B.); Defence Medal, unnamed; Delhi Durbar 1911 (Piper W. Lamont, 1st K.O.S.B. Delhi 1911); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (7681769 Pte., C. of M.P.) mounted as worn; Imperial Service Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue (William Lamont) in Royal Mint case of issue, very fine (7) £150-200

William Lamont was born in 1887 in the Parish of Kirkpatrick, Dumfries. A Machine Cleaner by occupation, he attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Annan on 29 January 1906. He went ‘absent’, 10 October-21 November for which he earned 168 hours detention and forfeited 39 days pay. With the 1st Battalion he served overseas in Egypt and the Sudan. In Sudan he was three times entered into the defaulter’s book , being ‘absent from Parade: drunk in barracks and breaking away from the escort’. In February 1911 the Borderers embarked for India, and Lamont was present at the Durbar. Whilst in India he was appointed Piper. He returned home in November 1914 before retuning overseas once more, serving in the Dardanelles campaign, 30 June - 29 August 1915, after which he returned home, having been wounded in action on Gallipoli on 2 August 1915.

On 19 November 1915 he was posted to the 9th (Reserve) Battalion as Piper. In September 1916 he was transferred to the 3rd Battalion and in December 1915 served in France. In May 1916, the 7th and 8th Battalions were amalgamated to form the 7th/8th Battalion. Piper Lamont was posted to the 7th/8th Battalion in January 1917. In January 1919 he was appointed an Acting Corporal in the battalion. Remaining in France until 21 June 1919, he was discharged on 18 July 1919. At some later date he rejoined and served with the Military Police, being awarded the L.S. & G.C. by Army Order May, 1925. Later still, as a Postman with the London Postal Region, he was awarded the Imperial Service Medal (London Gazette 13 March 1953).

With copied service details and copied group photographs.