1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders

[Wings5797]

Hello everybody,

A purely hypothetical question that will help me with a figure that I am currently constructing. The model is of a Sergeant of the 1^st Battalion Gordon Highlanders in Le Cateau France August 1914.

Can anyone please advise me of the possible medal group that a seasoned, long serving sergeant in this regiment may be wearing at the start of the war.

Best regards

Keith

[Sandie Hayes]

• • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_campaign_medals Does this help? You just need to decide which campaigns the Gordon Highlanders were involved in.

[Old Owl]

Hello everybody,

A purely hypothetical question that will help me with a figure that I am currently constructing. The model is of a Sergeant of the 1^st Battalion Gordon Highlanders in Le Cateau France August 1914.

Can anyone please advise me of the possible medal group that a seasoned, long serving sergeant in this regiment may be wearing at the start of the war.

Best regards

Keith

Hi Keith,

A fairly typical group to such a soldier who had served continually with the 1st Bn Gordon Highlanders, would be as follows:

IGS 1895 with clasps: Punjab Frontier 1897-98 and Tirah 1897-98

QSA with clasps: Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg and Belfast

KSA with clasps: South Africa 1901 and South Africa 1902

LS&GC, EdV11 or GV issue.

Delhi Durbar 1911.

Of course if you are only making a model the actual clasps will be irrelevant, however you may need to know the number of clasps on each medal?

Hope this helps,

Robert

[Wings5797]

Hello Sandie and Robert,

Many thanks for this excellent information. It's a great help.

Kindest regards,

Keith