Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Acting Serjeant D. Cameron, 2nd Battalion Lovat’s Scouts

1914-15 Star (4147 L. Cpl., 2-Lovat’s Scts.); British War and Victory Medals (4147 A. Sjt., 2-Lovat’s Scts.) extremely fine (3) £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Great War Medals to the Cameron Highlanders.

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Donald Cameron was born on 20 December 1879. Employed as a Ploughman from Glenelg, Inverness-shire, he enlisted into the Lovat’s Scouts on 4 December 1911. With the onset of war he was mobilised and embarked at Devonport for Gallipoli on 7 September 1915 and disembarked at Sulva Bay on 26 September. He entered Alexandria on 28 December 1915 and after service in Egypt was posted to Salonika in October 1916 and to Italy, thence France in June 1918. He was demobilised and discharged on 31 March 1920. As a Crofter, living in Glenelg, he then attested for the Lovat’s Scouts (Territorial Force) on 28 March 1921 and served with them until March 1922. With copied service papers.