Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A poignant Boer War group of three awarded to Pipe-Major David Laing, 1st Battalion Scots Guards, who became the best known Piper in the country when his picture showing him saying good-bye to his son on the square at Chelsea Barracks was published

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Belmont, Modder River, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast (6745 Pipe-Major D. Laing, Scots Gds.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (6745 Serjt:-Piper D. Laing. Scots Guards) suspension claw tightened; Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (6745 Sgt. Piper D. Laing. Scots Gds.) edge bruising and contact marks, otherwise better than good fine (3) £800-1000

Sold with several photographs of Pipe-Major Laing in uniform, together with Rayne Kruger’s book Good-bye Dolly Gray, which depicts him on the front dust jacket saying good-bye to his son at Chelsea Barracks.