Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3527 Pte. [sic] Leiper 1 Cam. Highrs) top lugs filled with retaining rod, suspension slack, nearly very fine £100-140

Robert Leiper was born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, in May 1885. He attested for the Cameron Highlanders at Inverness, 11 October 1893. He served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan, and was present at The Atbara and Omdurman. The Battalion returned to Egypt following the campaign in Sudan, and Leiper took part in the Battalion’s Annual Highland Games. The latter taking place at Kasr-el-Nil, where in 1899 he took 1st Place in the March, Strathspey and Reel for Young Pipers, and 2nd Place in the Mile and the Half Mile races.

Leiper served with ‘C’ Company 1st Battalion during the Second Boer War (entitled to Queen’s Sudan Medal, Q.S.A. with ‘Cape Colony’, ‘Johannesburg’, ‘Diamond Hill’ and ‘Wittebergen’ clasps, and K.S.A. with 2 clasps). He was discharged 10 October 1905, after 12 years service with the Colours.