Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Regimental Quarter Master Sergeant L. S. MacDougall, Midland Mounted Rifles, late Matabeleland Relief Force

British South Africa Company Medal 1890-97, reverse Rhodesia 1896, no clasp (Troopr. L. S. MacDougall. M.R.F.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Cape Colony (904 R.Q.M. Sjt: L. S. MacDougall. Mid: Mtd: Rifles) toned, good very fine (2) £360-£400

Provenance: Spink, May 2002.

Lorne Somerlea MacDougall served with the Matabeleland Relief Force and was ‘slightly wounded in arm while on patrol near Spargos Fort 5th August [1896].’ The Staff Diary entry for the latter date gives ‘Officer Commanding Spargos reports that Trooper LS MacDougall, MRF was fired at and slightly wounded in the arm by a party of rebels in a Kopje about 2 miles from the Fort. MacDougall was on patrol duty.’

In later life MacDougall resided at Belmont House, Somerset Road, Cape Town.