Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Burma 1887-89 (61 Lce. Corpl. A. Fraser, 1st Bn. K.O. Sco. Bord.), good very fine and regimentally rare £240-280

Likely one of just two such Medals and clasps awarded to the King’s Own Scottish Borderers.

Alexander Patrick Fraser was a native of Cannonbie, Dumfries-shire, Scotland. A Groom by occupation, he attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Galashiels on 20 December 1881, aged 19 years. He subsequently served with 1st Battalion in the East Indies between January 1883-January 1894 and was awarded the I.G.S. Medal with clasp for Burma 1887-89. As verified by the relevant roll (WO 100/73), he was detached from his unit for services in the Commissariat Department of the Bengal Army in the period November 1887 to April 1889; see the article ‘25th Foot, King’s Own Scottish Borderers’, by Alastair Penman, published in the Journal of the Orders and Medals Research Society (Autumn 1980 Volume 19, pp.184-186). Alexander subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders in January 1893; sold with copied medal roll verification and service papers.