Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Captain R. C. D. Wilson-MacQueen, King’s Royal Rifle Corps, D.A.A. & Q.M.G. at Durban during the First Boer War

Afghanistan 1878-80, 2 clasps, Ahmed Khel, Kandahar (Lieut. R. C. D. Wilson, 2/60th Rifles); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (Lieut. R. C. D. Wilson, 2/60 Foot); Empress of India Medal 1877, silver (Lieut. R. E. Wilson, 60th Royal Rifles D.A. Qr. Mr. General) note second initial, contact marks, otherwise very fine (3) £1600-1800

Robert Charles Dighton Wilson was appointed Lieutenant in the 2nd 60th Rifles in October 1872, and served with the 2nd Battalion in India and in the Afghan war from January 1879 to October 1880. He was present in the engagements at Ahmed Khel and Urzoo, near Ghuznee, and in the subsequent operations in the Logar Valley. He accompanied Sir Frederick Roberts in the march to Kandahar, and was present at the reconnaissance of 31st August and in the battle of Kandahar (Medal with two Clasps, and Bronze Star). He served in the Marri Expedition under Brigadier-General MacGregor in 1880, and was Deputy Assistant Adjutant and Quarter Master General at Durban during the Boer War in 1881. He assumed the additional name of MacQueen in 1913, upon his wife inheriting estates at Broughton, in Peeblesshire.