A Collection of Medals to the Highland Light Infantry

1914 Star (3185 Pte. J. Briton. 9/High: L.I.) good very fine £80-£100

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Highland Light Infantry.

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John Briton was born in Monksland, Airdrie, in 1889 ands attested for the Highland Light Infantry at Glasgow on 12 September 1914. He served with the 9th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 4 November 1914, and was wounded in the head at Givenchy on 16 February 1915, and again by gun shot to the back and leg on 17 May 1915. He was discharged on account of his wounds on 11 March 1917.

Sold with copied service papers.