Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Military General Service 1793-1814, 5 clasps, Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Orthes, Toulouse (A. D. McLaren, Lieut. 91st Foot) good very fine £1200-1500

Alexander Donald McLaren was first commissioned into the Berwickshire Militia, as Ensign, on 23 June 1811, becoming Lieutenant on 20 November 1811. He volunteered to the 91st Foot, once more as an Ensign, on 3 June 1812, and became a Lieutenant in that regiment on 31 November 1814. On reduction of the 91st in November 1816, he reverted to the Berwickshire Militia as Adjutant.