Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War Gallipoli M.C. and Mediterranean Theatre A.F.C. group of five awarded to Captain C. McM. Laing, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Royal Air Force

Military Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Gallipoli 1915’; Air Force Cross, G.V.R., the reverse inscribed ‘Mediterranean 1919’; 1914-15 Star (2.Lieut., R. Sc. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Capt., R.A.F.) mounted as worn, good very fine (5) £1400-1600

See Colour Plate VIII

M.C. London Gazette 3 June 1916.

A.F.C. London Gazette 3 June 1919.

M.I.D London Gazette 13 July 1916.

Captain Charles McMinamen Laing was commissioned on 22 April 1915, and won his Military Cross whilst serving with a Territorial battalion of the Royal Scots Fusiliers on the Gallipoli Peninsula, which he reached in September 1915. His A.F.C. was apparently awarded for unspecified service in the Mediterranean in 1919. Sold with some copied research.