Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Lieutenant John A. McDonald, 94th Victoria Regiment (Argyll Highlanders)

Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (Lieut. J. A. McDonald, 94th Regt.); Colonial Auxiliary Forces Decoration, G.V.R. (Lieut. John A. McDonald, 94th Regt.) naming officially impressed on the reverse of the crown and hallmarked Birmingham 1913, nearly extremely fine (2) £200-250

This regiment was organized on October 13, 1871 as The Victoria Provisional Battalion of Infantry from four independent companies. Headquarters of this new unit was established at Baddeck, Victoria County, Cape Breton. The ranks were filled predominantly by Highlanders, the descendants of Scots who had emigrated from the Duke of Argyll's estates. After a slight change in redesignation the unit officially became a Highland battalion on December 12, 1879. A few months later, on April 9, 1880, a further redesignation bound the unit to its Argyll ancestry by bearing The Victoria Provisional Battalion of Infantry "Argyll Highlanders" and in 1890, it was numbered " 94 " in the list of Canadian Militia Units.