Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Surgeon J. C. MacNeillie, Member of the First Union Parliament of South Africa

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (J. C. MacNeillie. Surgeon); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (Civ: Surgeon J. C. MacNeillie); Union of South Africa Medal 1910, unnamed as issued, extremely fine (3) £500-600

Doctor J. Campbell MacNeillie was born in Glasgow in 1869. After graduating as a physician from Glasgow University, he went to South Africa and started a practise in Boksburg. During the Boer War he served as a Civilian Surgeon up to the end of hostilities in May 1902. He was elected to the Transvaal House of Assembly in 1907 (Progressive Party, Klipportjie Ward) and again returned to the first Union Parliament in 1910 (Unionist Party, Boksburg Ward). At Boksburg he was also Chief of the Caledonian Society. Sold with two named card lids from boxes of issue and copied extracts from Who’s Who in South Africa.