Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain A. H. Mackintosh, 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders, killed in action, France/Flanders, 14 September 1914

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen, South Africa 1901 (Lt., 1/Camn. Hdrs.); 1914 Star, with clasp (Capt., Cam’n. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt.); Memorial Plaque (Alastair Hugh Mackintosh) last with fittings for wall hanging; together with a miniature dress medal of the Q.S.A., nearly extremely fine (6) £800-1000

Alastair Hugh Mackintosh was born on 19 July 1880. Commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders on 27 September 1899 and promoted to Lieutenant in April 1901. Serving in the Boer War, he was severely wounded at Vooruitzicht, 10 September 1901. Surviving his injuries, he was promoted to Captain in May 1910. Captain Macintosh, 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders, entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 14 August 1914. He was killed in action on 14 September 1914, aged 34 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial. He was the son of Hon. Lord Kyllachy, of Kyllachy, Tomatin, Invernesshire - a prominent Judge in Edinburgh and the Dean of the Law Society of Edinburgh. His mother was Jane Stevenson, the daughter of the Engineer David Stevenson and an aunt of the author, Robert Louis Stevenson.

With slip to accompany the 1914 Star forwarded to his brother, Captain W. E. Mackintosh, of Aisthorpe, Inverness; commemorative scroll; slip to accompany the Memorial Plaque and a studio photograph of Captain Alastair Hugh Mackintosh, in ceremonial uniform wearing his Q.S.A. Also with a custom-made (scuffed) red leather case to hold the Q.S.A. and dress miniature. With copied research.

For his brother’s medals, see lot 1421.