Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Medal of the Order of the British Empire group of three awarded to Regimental Quartermaster Serjeant William S. MacFarlane, Highland Light Infantry

Medal of the Order of the British Empire, (Civil) (Ord. Officer W. MacFarlane, May 1919); Volunteer Force Long Service, E.VII.R. (9814 Cpl. W. S. McFarlane, 2/V.B. H.L.I.) impressed naming, scratch marks to second initial; Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (TF-10 A.Q.M. Sjt. W. S. McFarlane, 6/High. L.I.) scratch marks to initials, note spelling of surname, mounted for wear, nearly very fine and better (3 £360-400

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Medal of the O.B.E. London Gazette 15 January 1919. ‘MacFarlane, William, Labourer, Army Ordnance Department’ ‘For conspicuous courage and self sacrifice in detaching a burning railway truck to save the fire from setting alight ammunition trucks which were next to it

William S. MacFarlane served in the Volunteer and Territorial Force for many years. He served in the 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry whose H.Q. was in Yorkhill Street, Glasgow. As a Corporal, he was awarded the Volunteer Force Long Service Medal by Army Order 6 of 1 January 1909. On the formation of the Territorial Force he continued to serve in the 6th T.F. Battalion H.L.I. With the outbreak of war, he was mobilized with the battalion as R.Q.M.S. He served in this capacity until 1916 when he transferred to the Army Ordnance Department for the remainder of the war. In 1919 he was awarded the Medal of the Order of the British Empire for bravery as a Labourer in the Ordnance Department. MacFarlane was awarded the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal in A.O. 48 of February 1918.

Sold with copied research and a copied photograph.