Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. S. White, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 30 July 1916

1915-15 Star (18197 Pte R. S. White. K.O. Sco: Bord:); British War and Victory Medals (18197 Cpl. R. S. White. K.O. Sco. Bord.) good very fine (3) £70-£90

Roy Stillman White born in Cape Town, South Africa, and attested for the King’s Own Scottish Borderers at Stonehaven, Kincardine. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front, and was killed in action on 30 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in an attack on Delville Wood. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.