Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Eight: Captain J. McKillop, Kenya Regiment, late Black Watch

1939-45 Star; Africa Star; Italy Star; France and Germany Star; Defence and War Medals, these unnamed; Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Kenya (Capt., Kenya Regt.); Efficiency Medal, G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Kenya (Lieut.) mounted as worn, slight contact marks, very fine and better (8) £500-600

Awarded the Efficiency Medal (Kenya), published in The Official Gazette of the Colony and Protectorate of Kenya 24 October 1950.

James McKillop, is reported to have been a flamboyant character, not least for his penchance of attending parades of the Kenya Regiment, and driving around operational areas during the 'Mau Mau' emergency while driving his 'Rolls Royce' - at the time there was a shortage of transport in Kenya, and Officers were given a special allowance for using their own vehicles!

James McKillop appears to have been a long time resident of Kenya (his 'first' Kenya Regiment enlistment number was 580 - a pre 1940 enlistment - with further enlistment numbers being 3830, 5616). In 1947 he is recorded as having been in a farm partnership with a chap called 'Prettejohn' on the 'Naro Moru Estate', before moving to the 'Sotik Estate' (Rift Valley) later in the same year, and at which place he is believed to have remained until leaving from Kenya shortly after independence. According to one correspondent who knew of Captain McKillop in the Kenya Regiment, James McKillop had served throughout the Second World War with a battalion of the Black Watch.

James McKillop died 'Suddenly' (believed suicide) at Douglas, Isle-of-Man on 27 April 1967, at which time his relatives/kin were described as his sister Violet Ommanney (there was a David Ommanney who was a professional Hunter who may have been his brother in law), and his brother Ian McKillop.

With copied gazette extracts.