Auction Catalogue

4 July 2001

Starting at 12:00 PM

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Miniature Medals

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1019

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4 July 2001

Hammer Price:
£980

A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Dundas, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders


Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R.; 1914 Star, with clasp (Major, A.& S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col.) nearly extremely fine (4) £700-900

D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1917.

Frederick Charles Dundas was born on 16 January 1868, son of Commander F. G. Dundas, R.N. He was educated at Westminster and Sandhurst, and joined the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1889; Captain, 1899; Major, 1911; Bt. Lieut.-Colonel, 1915 (for distinguished services in the field); Lieut.-Colonel, 1917. He served in France and Flanders, from 14 September 1914, as D.A.A. & Q.M.G. on the Staff of the 6th Division, Irish Command. He retired in 1918, and died on 23 January 1941.