Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.C. group of six awarded to Second Lieutenant A. McKendrick, Highland Light Infantry, attached Royal Scots Fusiliers, formerly Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed as issued; 1914-15 Star (1686 Sjt., Q.O.R. Glasgow Y.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut.); Defence and War Medals, generally good very fine (6) £800-1000

M.C. London Gazette 1 January 1919.

Alexander McKendrick first served in the Egyptian theatre of war from 22 June 1915 with the Queen’s Own Royal Glasgow Yeomanry, being commissioned into the Highland Light Infantry on 7 March 1918 and attached to the 12th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, with whom he gained the award of the Military Cross for service on the Western Front.

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