Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914 Star (7631 Pte A. Russell, Cam’n: Highrs) initial officially corrected, with Regimental Prize Medal, silver, obverse engraved ‘Pte A. Russell D. Coy 1st Q.O. Cameron Highldrs’, reverse engraved ‘Winner’s 1st Guards Bde and 1st Division Bayonet Fighting Competitions Aldershot 1912’, and note book compiled by recipient during winter training camps at Aldershot in 1909, good very fine £60-£80

Alexander Williamson Russell was the son of James Russell, of The Post House, Biggar, Lanarkshire. He served during the Great War with the 1st Battalion, Cameron Highlanders in the French theatre of war from 14 August 1914. Lance Corporal Russell was killed in action on the Western Front, 11 November 1914, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.