Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. and Second Award Bar group of four awarded to Corporal D. Glen, 6th Battalion, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, who was twice wounded, the first wound almost certainly received during the Battalion’s operations at Hill 70 during the Battle of Loos on 25-26 September, for which action the Battalion’s Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Douglas-Hamilton was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross

Military Medal, G.V.R., with Second Award Bar (S.10599. Cpl. D. Glen. 6/Cam: Hdrs.); 1914-15 Star (S-10599. L-Cpl. D. Glen. Cam’n Highrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (S-10599 Cpl. D. Glen. Cam’n Highrs.); Victory Medal 1914-19, naming erased; light contact marks, generally very fine (4) £1,000-£1,400

M.M. London Gazette 1 September 1916.

M.M. Second Award Bar London Gazette 6 August 1918.

Daniel Glen was born in Paisley, Renfrewshire, on 26 April 1889 and attested for the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, serving with the 6th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 9 July 1915. He was wounded by gun shot to the leg in September 1915, and was transferred to the sick convoy on 28 September 1915; given the date of his transfer to the convoy his wound was almost certainly received during the Battalion’s operations at Hill 70 during the Battle of Loos on 25-26 September, for which action the Battalion’s Commanding Officer, Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Douglas-Hamilton was awarded the Victoria Cross:
‘For most conspicuous bravery and devotion to duty when commanding his battalion during operations on 25 and 26 September 1915, on Hill 70. On 26 September, when the battalions on his right and left had retired, he rallied his own battalion again and again, and led his men forward four times. The last time he led all that remained, consisting of about fifty men, in a most gallant manner and was killed at their head. It was mainly due to his bravery, untiring energy and splendid leadership that the line at this point was enabled to check the enemy's advance.’ (London Gazette 18 November 1915).

Glen was wounded for a second time in July 1918, but survived the War, and transferred to Class ‘Z’ Reserve on 8 March 1919.

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