Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

British War Medal 1914-20 (1998 Pte. N. Cameron, Lovat’s Scts.) extremely fine £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to Trumpeters from the Collection of Roderick Cassidy.

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Neil Cameron, who served as a Trumpeter in ‘A’ Squadron, Lovat’s Scouts, was killed in action at Gallipoli on 2 October 1915, aged 21 years. The son of Angus and Anne Cameron of Kinlochleven, Argyll, he was interred in Green Hill Cemetery on the Anzac-Suvla Road, Turkey. Less than 90 men of Lovat’s Scouts became fatal casualties in the Great War, and just 20 of them at Gallipoli.