Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Corporal M. Craigen, 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders, killed in action, France, 3 September 1916

1914-15 Star (7043 Pte., Cam’n. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (7043 Cpl., Cam’n. Highrs.); Memorial Plaque (Malcolm Craigen) very fine and better (4) £160-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Great War Medals to the Cameron Highlanders.

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Malcolm Craigen was born and lived in Inverness and enlisted into the 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders as a Boy at Fort George on 14 September 1904. Appointed a Bandsman in November 1906. He entered the France/Flanders theatre of war on 20 April 1915 and was killed in action on 3 September 1916, aged 26 years. Having no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. He was the son of R. Craigen, of 759 Bilsland Drive, Glasgow. With copied m.i.c. and casualty details.