Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private T. Tullock, Royal Highlanders

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal 6632 Pte., 2nd Rl. Highldrs.); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps (6634 Pte., Rl. Highrs.) note different service numbers, nearly extremely fine (2)
£140-180

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals for the Anglo-Boer War.

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With copied roll extracts - both service numbers given.

Possibly the same man as 1834 Private Thomas Tulloch, 7th Battalion Royal Scots, who enlisted on 30 August 1914 and was discharged on 13 January 1916 and was awarded the Silver War Badge. He was discharged due to injuries sustained at the Gretna (Quintinshill) railway disaster on 22 May 1915. 226 men were killed in the disaster, of which 217 were men of the Royal Scots who were aboard a troop train. A further 246 men were injured. With copied m.i.c. and some copied research on the accident.