Orders, Decorations and Medals

A group of medals awarded to Regimental Quartermaster Sergeant A. G. Brown, Black Watch and Indian Unattached List

Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 3rd issue, India (A-R.Q.M.S. A. G. Brown, I.U.L., attd. A.F.I.); together with eight regimental prize medals: Black Watch Prize Medal, reverse inscribed, ‘Inter Coy. Shooting Shield, 1922 “B” Coy, Sgt. A. Brown’, 38 x 32mm., silver-gilt and enamel, hallmarks for Birmingham 1921, silver buckle on ribbon, some enamel damage; Prize Medal, obverse inscribed, ‘The Black Watch’, reverse inscribed, Athletic Championships, Half Mile, First Sgt. A. G. Brown, Jan. 1922, 50mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1920; another, reverse inscribed, ‘Athletic Championship, Inter Coy. Relay, First, B. Coy. Sgt. A. G. Brown, Jan. 1922’, 41mm., silver, hallmarks for Birmingham 1918; 42nd Foot Medal, reverse inscribed (place, date and race engraved) ‘Annual Games, 1st Battn. The Black Watch, Quetta, 1923, Relay Race’, 45mm., silver; Bengal Presidency Athletic Association Medal (British Army Championships, Feb. 1922, 1000 Yds. 1st Prize, Sgt. A. G. Brown, 42nd R.H.) 38mm., silver, lacking suspension, solder marks on reverse; Prize Medal, ‘Cross Country 3rd 1921, 42nd Sgt. A. G. Brown’, 42 x 37mm., ornate cross, silver and silver-gilt; Prize Medal, ‘Allahabad Peace Sports Dec. 1919, Open Relay, 1st, The Black Watch, Cpl. Brown’, 38 x 34mm., silver-gilt, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919; Prize Medal, obverse inscribed, ‘Feb. 1920, B Coy. 42nd Football League’, reverse inscribed, ‘Sgt. A. Brown’, 32 x 28mm., silver-gilt, hallmarks for Birmingham 1919, good very fine and better (9) £160-200

A. G. Brown enlisted on 12 September 1914. Serving in the Black Watch he was promoted to Corporal in March 1917; Lance-Sergeant in May 1920; Sergeant in February 1921 and Staff Sergeant in October 1925. Brown later transferred to the Indian Unattached List and was discharged with a pension on 29 November 1938. With some copied service details and with copied pages from the Red Hackle which feature Sergeant Brown.