Auction Catalogue

16 & 17 September 2010

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 1575

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17 September 2010

Hammer Price:
£1,700

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.C. group of nine awarded to Lieutenant Bruce Woodrow MacDougall, Black Watch of Canada, late Cameronians

Military Cross, G.V.R., unnamed; 1914 Star, with clasp (5647 Cpl., 5/Sco. Rif.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (2 Lieut.); Defence Medal, Canadian issue in silver; Canadian Volunteer Service Medal, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, Canadian issue in silver, these unnamed; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (C.S.M. (W.O. Cl. 2), Black Watch of C.); Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (200022 W.O. Cl. II, 5-Cameronians) mounted court style for wear, some with contact marks, nearly very fine and better (9) £1600-2000

M.C. London Gazette 1 February 1919. ‘2nd Lt., 5/6th Sco. Rif. T.F.’ ‘For conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. He led his platoon in an attack on Meath Post on the night of 21st September, 1918, and after its capture he drove out, with the bayonet, a packet of the enemy which had been left. While the consolidation was on he took out two patrols and kept the front clear. He showed fine leadership and dash.’

M.I.D.
London Gazette 27 December 1918.

Bruce Woodrow MacDougall was born in Glasgow on 1 September 1897. By occupation a Draughtsman and Scientific Instrument Manufacturer, he joined the 5th Battalion Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) on 3 March 1909. As a Lance-Corporal serving with the battalion he entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 5 November 1914. MacDougall was granted a commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the same battalion on 30 January 1918. For his part in the capture of Meath Post he was mentioned in despatches and awarded the Military Cross. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 July 1919 and resigned his commission on 22 March 1922 whilst retaining his rank. In addition to his Great War medals, he was awarded the T.E.M. in A.O. 65 of February 1921. After the war he emigrated to Canada where he served with the 2nd (42nd) Battalion the Black Watch of Canada, 1924-33. In 1931 MacDougall was C.S.M. of ‘B’ Company. The following year he was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Forces L.S. Medal, this published in the
Canada Gazette of 9 January 1932. In the Second World War he attested on 24 February 1940 in the Canadian Active Service Force and was posted to 1 Survey Regiment, Royal Canadian Artillery. Serving in the U.K., he was later posted to the R.C.O.C. and the R.C.E.M.E. He was discharged from the Army in Montreal on 7 August 1945 and died in London, Middlesex, on 27 November 1952. Sold with a quantity of copied research.