Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria including the collection to Naval Artificers formed by JH Deacon

Family group:

Five: Major R. G. Nairne, Indian Army

1914-15 Star (2), (Lt., 1/61/Pionrs.; another, Captn., Myitkyina Bn. B.M.R.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (Maj., 1-1 M. Prs.), nearly extremely fine

Three: 2nd Lieutenant W. G. Nairne, South Lancashire Regiment

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut., S. Lan. R.) British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.), extremely fine (8) £180-220

Major Robert Gordon Nairne was born in 1884. He was commissioned into the Royal Scots Fusiliers in 1906 and transferred to the Indian Army in 1908.

2nd Lieutenant William Graham Nairne, 3rd battalion South Lancashire Regiment, died of wounds, France / Flanders, 11.7.1915, aged 29 years and was buried in the Lijssenthoek Military Cemetry, Poperinge, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.