Auction Catalogue

26 & 27 September 2018

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Lot

№ 908

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27 September 2018

Hammer Price:
£360

Three: Lieutenant A. C. M. Gordon, 6th Battalion, Royal Scots Fusiliers, who served in the same Battalion during the Great War as Winston Churchill, was three times wounded, and died of wounds on 1 March 1917

1914-15 Star (Lieut. A. C. M. Gordon. R. Sc. Fus.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut. A. C. M. Gordon.) about extremely fine (3) £140-180

Alistair Campbell Miller Gordon was born on 3 September 1891, the son of Lieutenant-Colonel James Gordon, Royal Scots Fusiliers, and was educated at Charterhouse, Wadham College, Oxford, and Edinburgh University. Following the outbreak of the Great War he enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion, Middlesex Regiment, before being commissioned Second Lieutenant in his father’s old Regiment, the Royal Scots Fusiliers, on 24 November 1914. Posted to the 6th Battalion, he served during the Great War on the Western Front from 1915, was three times wounded, and died of his wounds at home on 1 March 1917. He is buried in Highgate Cemetery, London.

The 6th Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers was commanded from January to May 1916 by Winston Churchill.