Special Collections

Sold between 21 September & 2 April 2003

3 parts

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Medals to The Gordon Highlanders and Associated Units from the Collection of A.J. Henderson

Arnold James Henderson

Lot

№ 539

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6 July 2004

Hammer Price:
£160

Six: Captain T. D. F. MacNeal, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, late Black Watch and Gordon Highlanders

British War and Victory Medals
(Lieut.); Defence and War Medals; Jubilee 1935; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., the reverse officially dated ‘1950’, this last lacking upper suspension bar, good very fine and better (6) £140-160

Torquhil Duncan Ferachar first entered the French theatre of war in the Gordon Highlanders in late October 1916 - his MIC also states that he saw service with the Black Watch. Afterwards a member of the Territorial Army Reserve of Officers, he was advanced to Captain in December 1922 and transferred to the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

See Lot 543 for his father’s award.