Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria. Including a superb collection of medals to the King’s German Legion, Police Medals from the Collection of John Tamplin and a small collection of medals to the Irish Guards

Coronation 1911, privately inscribed ‘No. 25 Sergt. M. Anderson, Shetland Co’s Gord. Highrs.’, together with a series of attractive silver prize medals (4): oval with heavy floral border, 32 x 23mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1905, inscribed, ‘2nd Prize Won by Sergt. M. Anderson, 1905, 7th V.B.G.H., Miniature of Medal presented by the “A” Coy. Sergeants’; another, circular with heavy floral border and ornate suspension, 41 x 27mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1907, inscribed, ‘Miniature of the Loggie Medal, 7th V.B.G.H., A Coy., 1907, Won by Sergt. M. Anderson’; another, circular, 24mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1911, inscribed, ‘Shetland Companies Gordon Highlanders, Sergeant’s Medal, A Co., Won by Sergt. M. Anderson, 1911’, centre loose; another, circular, 24mm., hallmarks for Birmingham 1912, inscribed, ‘Shetland Companies Gordon Highlanders, Sergeant’s Medal, A Co., Won by Sergt. M. Anderson, 1912’, all with finely engraved regimental crests, each suspended by silk tartan ribbons extremely fine and unusual (5) £150-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Gordon Highlanders and Associated Units from the Collection of A.J. Henderson.

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After the transformation of the old Volunteer Force into the Territorial Army in 1908, the volunteers in the Shetland Islands, who had been part of the old 7th Volunteer Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders, were formed into two independent Companies of the Gordons, not attached to any particular Battalion. On the outbreak of the Great War, these Companies were sent to the Western Front, but were so decimated in 1915 that they were eventually distributed amongst other units in their Division, the majority going to the Royal Engineers.