Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private R. Moffat, Royal Scots, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 17 May 1915

1914-15 Star (5030 Pte. R. Moffat. R. Scots.); British War and Victory Medals (5030 Pte. R. Moffat. R. Scots.); Memorial Plaque (Robert Moffat) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Robert Moffat, The Royal Scots’, in OHMS scroll holder addressed to ‘Mrs. M. Moffat, 23 Lamb Place, Loanhead, Midlothian’; together with the recipient’s cap badge, shoulder titles, and tunic button, nearly extremely fine (5) £180-£220

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to Great War Casualties.

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Provenance: Acquired by the vendor directly from the recipient’s family.

Robert Moffat was born in Lasswade, Midlothian, and attested for the Royal Scots at Loanhead, Midlothian, on 9 December 1914. He served with the 8th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 17 February 1915, and died at St. Omer of a gun shot wound to the abdomen on 17 May 1915. He is buried in Longuenesse Souvenir Cemetery, France.

Sold with the named Record Office enclosure for the 1914-15 Star; original Certificate of Death and notification of burial; and copied research, including a photographic image of the recipient.