Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Lieutenant D. McOwan, London Regiment

1914 Star, with clasp (8752 Sjt., 5/Lond. R.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2 Lieut.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (6561212 C.Q.M. Sjt., 5-Lond. R.) minor correction to naming, good very fine (4) £200-240

M.I.D. London Gazette 4 January 1917.

Serjeant Douglas McOwan, 5th Battalion London Regiment, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war in 1914. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion on 28 September 1915 and advanced to Temporary Lieutenant on 15 September 1916 and was confirmed in that rank on 1 July 1917. He resigned his commission due to ill health on 27 June 1919. Awarded the T.E.M. in November 1923.