Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria, to include the Brian Ritchie Collection (Part I)

Three: Temporary Lieutenant D. B. McKelvie, Royal Scots, late Royal Army Medical Corps

1914-15 Star (47729 Pte.,R.A.M.C.); British War and Victory Medals (2 Lieut.) extremely fine (3) £70-90

David Blyth McKelvie was born in Methil, Fife. A school teacher by profession he attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps on 31 December 1914.

He entered the Egypt theatre of war on 22 April 1915. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant with 1st Battalion Royal Scots on 2 May 1916, he attained the rank of Temporary Lieutenant on 2 November 1917. He served with the Royal Scots in Macedonia during May-September 1916. He suffered a gun-shot wound to the left hip on 30 September 1916 while in an attack on a village beyond the Struma River. He was treated in the No.4 Canadian Hospital, Salonika and was then invalided to Malta and thence home suffering additionally from malaria and contracting dysentery whilst in transit on H.M.H.S. Britannia. Later awarded the Silver War Badge.

Sold with cpopied service papers and the copied Royal Scots War Diary for 30 September 1916.