Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A post-War ‘Scouting’ O.B.E. pair awarded to Captain B. D. Fairgrieve, Royal Army Medal Corps, who was Regimental Medical Officer to the 2nd/6th Gurkha Rifles

The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, O.B.E. (Civil) Officer’s 2nd type breast badge, silver-gilt; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Malaya, E.II.R. (Lt. B. D. Fairgrieve. R.A.M.C.); together with an unofficial National Service Medal and the three miniature awards, nearly extremely fine (3) £200-£240

O.B.E. London Gazette 14 June 1989:
‘For services to the Scout Association in Blair Atholl, Tayside’

Brian David Fairgrieve was born in Cambusland and educated at Gresham House Boarding School, Glasgow Academy and Glasgow University. After 18 months at the Western Infirmary, Glasgow, he was commissioned into the Royal Army Medical Corps and served in Singapore and Malaya as regimental medical officer with 2nd/6th Gurkha Rifles. Fairgrieve, who described this time as ‘one of the best experiences of my life’, survived a convoy ambush in which the Gurkhas killed six terrorists.

Further appointments followed at Killearn Hospital, the Western Infirmary, Stobhill Hospital and Falkirk Royal Infirmary, latterly as general surgeon. In addition to his scouting work, as medical officer and a District Commissioner, Fairgrieve lectured and examined at the Scottish Police College and was a Deputy Lieutenant from 1972. He died in 2010.

Sold with copied research and a copied group photograph in Klulang, 1953.