Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Sapper W. Cameron, Royal Engineers, late Lovat’s Scouts and Scottish Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (37039 Tpr., Scottish Horse); 1914-15 Star (2280 Pte., Lovat’s Scts.); British War and Victory Medals (2280 Pte., 1-Lovat’s Scts.), very fine and better (4) £180-220

William Cameron, who was born at Kilmorack, Inverness, joined the Scottish Horse in May 1901, aged 21 years, and served in that corps in South Africa from June 1901 until June 1902, in which latter month he was discharged in Johannesburg - accompanying research suggests that he remained resident in South Africa and served in Royston’s Horse in the 1906 Rebellion. Be that as it may, he was back in Scotland by the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914, where, in the following month, he joined Lovat’s Scouts at Beauly, Inverness-shire. Embarked for the Mediterranean theatre of war, he was landed in Gallipoli in October 1915 and afterwards served in the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, having transferred to the Royal Engineers in July 1916, when he was posted to No. 276 (Railway) Company, R.E., as a Sapper. Cameron, who contracted malaria in August 1918, was discharged in June 1919.