Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant D. T. Peffers, 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lt. D. T. Peffers.) together with Bronze Memorial Plaque (David Tweedie Peffers) all contained in contemporary Brook & Son, Edinburgh, bronzed glazed frame surmounted by regimental badge, extremely fine (3) £120-£160

David Tweedie Peffers was born in 1896, elder son of Mr D. Peffers, of Edinburgh, and was educated at the George Weston College in Edinburgh, 1907-12, after which he studied surveying and engineering. He enlisted on 28 October 1914 and joined the 9th Battalion, Royal Scots T.F., and was appointed Lance-Corporal in March 1916. He was granted a commission as Second Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 29 September 1917, and was killed in action near Mercatel, France, on 27 February 1918, ‘instantaneously by a shell’. He is buried in Wancourt British Cemetery, Pas de Calais, and is also commemorated on the George Watson College memorial.

Sold with copied service papers, extracts from the regimental war diary and other research.