Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of five awarded to Sergeant J. MacCorquodale, Royal Scots

Military Medal, G.V.R. (350035 Sjt. J. MacCorquodale, 1/9 R. Scots); British War and Victory Medals (350035 Sjt. J. MacCorquodale, R. Scots); Defence Medal 1939-45; Territorial Efficiency Medal, G.V.R. (350035 Sjt. J. MacCorquodale, 9-R. Scots), initial and surname officially corrected on the British War and Victory Medals, good very fine (5) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 16 July 1918.

MacCorquodale, who came from Edinburgh, most probably arrived in France in early 1916, in which year the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots, fought for several days in the front line at High Wood in July, including an attack launched on the 23rd when, as a result of heavy shell and machine-gun fire, casualties of 175 officers and men were sustained. Subsequently engaged in bitter fighting at Arras, Passchendaele and Cambrai in 1917, the Battalion was all but wiped out in the German Spring Offensive in March 1918, but nonetheless held its ground. Here, then, the probable cause for the award of MacCorquodale’s M.M.