Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1908 (Captn W. E. McKechnie I.M.S. 29th. Pjbis) good very fine £160-£200

William Ernest McKechnie was born at Cronstadt in the Orange Free State on 12 August 1874, and was educated at the University of Edinburgh. Entering the Indian Medical Service as a Lieutenant on 27 July 1899, he was advanced Lieutenant-Colonel on 28 January 1919, and retired on 23 January 1922. He served in the China War of 1900 and in the Mohmand campaign on the North-West Frontier of India in 1908. In 1911 he was posted to civil employ in the United Provinces, but reverted to military employ at the beginning of the Great War. After the war he served for a short time as Civil Surgeon of Lucknow. He died at Hastings on 13 May 1940.

McKechnie’s son, Group Captain William Neil McKechnie, was awarded the Empire Gallantry Medal in 1929, and exchanged it for the George Cross in 1940.

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