Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private T. Johnston, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 12 October 1916

1914-15 Star (S-13014. Pte. T. Johnston, Cam’n Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-13014 Pte. T. Johnston. Cam’n Highrs.); Memorial Plaque (Thomas Johnston) in card envelope, with Buckingham Palace enclosure, in outer OHMS transmission envelope addressed to ‘Mr. A. Johnston, 11, Craig Terrace, Caldercruix, Airdrie, Lanarkshire’; Memorial Scroll, ‘Pte. Thomas Johnstone [sic], Cameron Highrs., in OHMS transmission tub, similarly addressed; together with the recipient’s card identity disc ‘13014. T. Johnston Camn Highrs. Pres’; and a similar steel identity bracelet, extremely fine (7) £160-£200

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.

Thomas Johnston was born in Caldercruix, Airdrie, Lanarkshire, and attested for the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders at Edinburgh on 10 September 1914. He served with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 July 1915, and was killed in action on 12 October 1916. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold together with named Record Office enclosures for the three medals; War Office letter; a postcard photograph of the recipient; the recipient’s New Testament Bible; and copied research.