Orders, Decorations and Medals

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Modder River, Paardeberg (Lt. F. G. G. Cunningham, A. & S. Highrs.) good very fine £200-250

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Massie Collection of Medals to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

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Francis George Glencairn Cunningham was born in Melbourne, Australia, on 9 August 1880. He was educated at Eton and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, from the Militia, as 2nd Lieutenant on 18 October 1899. He served in South Africa in the advance on Kimberley, including actions at Modder River and Magersfontein; operations in Orange Free State, February to May 1900, including the operations at Paardeberg (17 to 26 February) when he was slightly wounded.