Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Lieutenant R. W. Baillie, Highland Light Infantry, late King Edward’s Horse
1914-15 Star (368 Cpl R. W. Baillie 2nd. King Edward’s Horse) re-engraved naming; British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. R. W. Baillie. H.L.I.) unit unofficially engraved; together with the related miniature awards and the recipient’s riband bar, these both with M.I.D. oak leaves, the Star gilded, good very fine

Pair: Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend I. R. C. Baillie, Royal Army Chaplains’ Department
General Service 1962-2007, 2 clasps, South Arabia, Northern Ireland, second clasp unofficially attached, as issued (The Rev. I. R. C. Baillie. C.F.3. R.A. Ch. D.); U.N. Medal, UNFICYP riband, unnamed as issued, mounted court style as worn, together with the related miniature awards, good very fine (5) £300-400

R. W. Baillie was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry, and served during the Great War on the Staff as a Railway Traffic Officer with the rank of temporary Lieutenant from 30 March 1918.
M.I.D. unconfirmed.

The Reverend Iain Robert Cullen Baillie was born in 1928 and was educated at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery on 15 July 1948, he was promoted Lieutenant on 15 July 1950, before resigning his commission on 1 October 1951, and was granted the honorary rank of Lieutenant. Taking Holy Orders, he was commissioned Anglican Chaplain to the Forces, 4th Class, on 1 September 1958, and was promoted Chaplain to the Forces, 3rd Class, on 24 February 1965. He served with the Chaplains’ Department in South Arabia, Cyprus, and Northern Ireland, before retiring on account of disability on 8 October 1980. He died in 1999.