Auction Catalogue

6 July 2004

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 379

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£190

Pair: Captain M. R. Kinloch-Wylie, 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders, formerly 10th (Scottish) Battalion, Liverpool Regiment

1914 Star (3152 Pte. M. R. K. Wylie, 10/L’pool. R.); British War Medal 1914-20 (Capt.); together with original commission document to rank of Second Lieutenant, dated 16.2.1915; and Registered packet of issue for medals, addressed to recipient at ‘The Church House, Formby, Lancs.’, good very fine (2) £80-100

Captain Malcolm Rollo Kinlock-Wylie attested for the Liverpool Scottish on 7 August 1914, and formed one of the original contingent to sale to France aboard the S.S. Maidan in November 1914. He was discharged from the battalion in December 1914 to train for a commission, which he received two months later in the 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders. Sold with a contemporary postcard depicting St Peter’s Church, Formby and a copied group photograph of 9th Battalion, Seaforth Highlanders officers, with recipient identified.