Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (4634 Pte. M. Mc Cabe. K.O. Sco. Bord.); together with the recipient’s Memorial Plaque (Michael McCabe), edge bruising and contact marks, nearly very fine £70-90

Michael McCabe was born in Ecclefechan, Dumfriesshire, and attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Dumfries. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 27 August 1914, and was advanced Lance Corporal. He died of wounds in the American Ambulance Hospital, Paris, on 25 September 1914, and is buried in Neuilly-sur-Seine New Communal Cemetery, France.