Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Crimean War pair of medals of Ensign Malcolm Drummond, Viscount Forth, who carried the Regimental Colour of the 42nd Royal Highlanders at the battle of the Alma
Crimea 1854-55, 2 clasps, Alma, Sebastopol (Ensign Vist. Forth, 42d Foot) contemporary engraved naming; Turkish Crimea 1855, Sardinian issue, Hunt & Roskill pattern, both medals fitted with silver ribbon buckles, nearly extremely fine (2)

Malcolm Drummond, later Viscount Forth, was appointed Ensign in the Black Watch on 4 November 1853. He retired on 17 November 1854, and died in Gloucester on 8 October 1861. He is depicted carrying the Regimental Colour in the famous painting Forward the 42nd! by Robert Gibb RSA. Captain Peter Halkett carried the Queen’s Colour on the same occasion and later recorded: ‘I had now some trouble and anxiety, as when advancing in line, the whole Regt. ‘dresses’ upon the Colours, which are in the centre of the line, and Forth kept hanging back, requiring me constantly to keep on saying ‘Come on will you, you’re putting out the whole line’ - and the Major of the left line, old Tom Tulloch rode up at once, and pitched into him.’