Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private W. McBean, Seaforth Highlanders Mounted Infantry

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5291 Pte. W. McBead. 1/Sea: Highrs:); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5291 Pte. W. McBean. Sea: Highrs: M.I.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (5291 Pte. W. McBean 1st Sea: Highrs.) good very fine (3) £450-550

William McBean was born in the Parish of Alves, Elgin, and attested for the Seaforth Highlanders on 9 July 1895, aged 18 years, a tailor by trade. He served with the Nile Expedition in the Sudan in 1898, in the occupation of Crete in 1899, and in the South African War in 1901-02, during which he served with the 18th Mounted Infantry. He was discharged in the rank of Lance-Corporal on 8 July 1907. Sold with copied discharge papers and medal roll extracts.