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

Pair: Sergeant C. Burr, The Gordon Highlanders

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (8253 Pte., Gordon Highrs.); Territorial Force Efficiency Medal, E.VII.R. (365 Sjt., 5/Gordon Hdrs.) dated clasp unofficially riveted, nearly extremely fine (2) £180-200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals to The Gordon Highlanders and Associated Units from the Collection of A.J. Henderson.

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Sergeant C. Burr was slightly wounded at Lydenburg on 8 September 1900, while serving with the 2nd Gordons.

Burr came from Strichen, Aberdeenshire and was a member of the 3rd Volunteer Battalion of the Gordon Highlanders. He served in South Africa as part of the 2nd Service Company, attached to the 2nd Gordons. The Company joined the 2nd Battalion in April 1900 and served with it until posted to Cape Town that October where it was employed in guarding Boer prisoners. In December the Company was sent on convoy duty and in April 1901 it was embarked on the Tagus bound for home.

A portrait of Burr appears in A Record of Northern Valour.