Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Corporal J. A. Wright, Scottish Horse, later Royal Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 4 November 1918

1914-15 Star (4058 Pte. J. A. Wright. 1-Sco. H.); British War and Victory Medals (4058 A. Cpl. J. A. Wright. 1-Sco. H.) good very fine (3) £120-£160

John Alexander Wright attested for the Scottish Horse at Aberdeen and served with them during the Great War at Gallipoli from 18 August 1915. Dismounted, he served with the 13th (Scottish Horse) Battalion, Royal Highlanders (as the 1s/1st Scottish Horse Yeomanry became), and was killed in action at the Battle of the Sambre on the Western Front on 4 November 1918. He is buried at Cross Roads Cemetery, Fontaine-au-Bois, France.