Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private H. McKenzie, Seaforth Highlanders

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (5301 Pte. H. Mc.Kenzie 1/Sea: Hrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902, unofficial rivets between state and date clasps (5301 Pte. H. Mc.Kenzie. Sea: Highrs: M.I.); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (5301 Pte. H. McKenzie 1st. Sea. Highrs.) Regimentally engraved naming, mounted as worn, contact marks and edge bruising, nearly very fine (3) £400-£500

Hugh McKenzie was born in Mik, Caithness, in 1877 and attested for the Seaforth Highlanders on 25 July 1895, having previously served with the 1st Sutherland Highland Rifle Volunteers. He served with the 1st Battalion during the Occupation of Crete from 22 March to 24 November 1897, and then in Egypt and the Sudan from 5 January 1898 to 20 January 1901. Proceeding to South Africa on the latter date, he served with the 18th Mounted Infantry Company during the Boer War, before transferring to the 2nd Battalion on 16 September 1902. Reverting back to the 1st Battalion on 16 December of that year, he saw further service in India, being discharged in Bombay on 4 September 1913.

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