Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Second Lieutenant A. Sherriff, Royal Scots Fusiliers, late Gordon Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 22 March 1918

1914-15 Star (S-2671 Pte. A. Sherriff. Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. A. Sherriff.); Memorial Plaque (Alexander Sherriff) the plaque with two drill holes at top, otherwise very fine (4) £160-£200

Alexander Sherriff, a native of Hawick, Roxburghshire, attested for the Gordon Highlanders and served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 July 1915. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Scots Fusiliers on 29 March 1917, and was killed in action on the Western Front on 22 March 1918, during the 6th/7th Battalion’s retirement from at Vraucourt on the St. Leger- Bullecourt Front. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Arras Memorial, France.

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