Auction Catalogue

6 & 7 December 2017

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

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Lot

№ 1043 x

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7 December 2017

Hammer Price:
£1,300

A most complete Family Group:

Three:
Private George Douglas, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, killed in action at Gallipoli, 26 April 1915
1914-15 Star (9821. Pte. G. Douglas. K.O. Sco: Bord:.); British War and Victory Medals (9821 Pte. G. Douglas. K.O. Sco. Bord.), all in individual named card boxes of issue and contained in individual outer transmission envelopes, all addressed to ‘Mr. J. Douglas, East Mains, Inchmarlo, Banchory’, each with individual named Record Office enclosures; Memorial Plaque (George Douglas) in card envelope and outer transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mr. J. Douglas, East Mains, Inchmarlo, Banchory, Kincardenshire’, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in Mint condition as issued

Three:
Corporal Gordon Douglas, Gordon Highlanders, killed in action at the Somme, 13 November 1916
1914-15 Star (2957. Pte. G. Douglas. Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (2957 Cpl. G. Douglas. Gord. Highrs.), all in individual named card boxes of issue and contained in one outer transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. H. Douglas, East Mains, Inchmarlo, Banchory, Kincardineshire’, with two named Record Office enclosures, one for the Star, and the other for the British War and Victory Medals; Memorial Plaque (Gordon Douglas) in card envelope and outer transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mrs. H. F. Douglas, East Mains, Inchmarlo, Banchory, A’deenshire.’, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll (Cpl. Gordon Douglas Gordon Highrs.), in scroll transmission tube addressed to ‘Mrs. H. F. Douglas, East Mains, Inchmarlo, Banchory, Aberdeenshire’, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in Mint condition as issued (lot) £600-800

George Douglas was born in Banchory, Kincardineshire, in 1886, the son of James and Helen Douglas, and attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Aberdeen. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War, and was killed in action at Gallipoli, on the Bluff above “Y” Beach in the Helles Section, on 26 April 1915. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Helles Memorial, Turkey.

Gordon Douglas was born in in Banchory, Kincardineshire, in 1894, the son of James and Helen Douglas, and the brother of George Douglas, and attested there for the Gordon Highlanders. He served with the 7th Battalion during the Great War, and was killed in action on the Somme on 13 November 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack on the enemy positions at Beaumont-Hamel: the Battalion, together with the 1/6th Black Watch cleared the German front line and consolidated the Allied gains, suffering a total of 320 casualties. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold together with a King’s Own Scottish Borderers and a Gordon Highlanders cap badge.