Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Lance-Corporal J. G. Fotheringham, Royal Highlanders

1914-15 Star (S-7265 Pte., R. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-7265 Pte., R. Highrs.); Army Meritorious Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (S-7265 Pte.-L. Cpl., 8/R. Highrs.), good very fine £140-180

John C. Fotheringham was awarded his M.S.M. in the London Gazette of 18 January 1919 and, according to an accompanying wartime newspaper cutting was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Fotheringham of West Cambus - ‘Prior to enlisting in 1914 he was a clerk in the office of Messrs. Ewing and Cuthbert, Alloa.’

The 8th Battalion, Black Watch arrived in France in the summer of 1915, and quickly saw action in the Battle of Loos that September. So, too, on the Somme, when it carried out a successful attack on Longueaval on 14 July 1916, probing as far as Delville Wood - but at a cost of 568 officers and men killed or wounded.