Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Captain, The Hon. M. P. Macnaghten, Royal Scots Fusiliers and Gordon Highlanders

India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (Lieut., 1st Bn. Ryl. Sco. Fus.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Defence of Ladysmith, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut., R. Scots Fus.), mounted as worn, minor contact marks, good very fine (2) £550-650

Maurice Patrick Macnaghten was born on 2 March 1874, the fifth son of Sir Edward Macnaghten, 4th Baronet and Baron Macnaghten. He was commissioned into the Army from the Militia as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on 6 June 1896 and promoted Lieutenant on 25 August 1898. With the regiment he took part in the operations on the N.W. Frontier of India 1897-98, being present during the operations on the Samana and the action of the Ublan Pass, with the Tirah Expeditionary Force (Medal with two clasps). Macnaghten served in the Boer War, taking part in the operations in Natal 1899, including the action at Lombard’s Kop; present at the defence of Ladysmith, including the action of 6 January 1900 when serving with the Gordon Highlanders; served in the Transvaal west of Pretoria, July - November 1900, including the action at Venterskroon, 7 & 9 August. Also served in various operations in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State, including the action at Ruidam (Medal with four clasps). At the defence of Ladysmith he was attached to the Gordon Highlanders. It is recorded in their Regimental History that as he was engaged to be married he pleased his company no end, when, at ‘stand-to’ one morning, he paraded with a large tartan heart sewn on the seat of his ‘inexpressibles’. Promoted Captain on 6 May 1901 he later served with the Egyptian Army, for which services he was awarded the Order of Medjidie 3rd Class. The object of his ‘tartan heart’s’ desire, Miss Sybil Torbock Graham, he married on 14 October 1912. Sold with some copied research.