Orders, Decorations and Medals

An early Great War M.C. group of four awarded to Captain I. D. Dalrymple, Highland light Infantry, attached King’s Own Scottish Borderers, killed in action in the Second Battle of Ypres
Military Cross, G.V.R.; 1914 Star (Lieut., High. L.I.); British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. (Capt.) together with a companion set of miniatures, these unworn, nearly extremely fine (8)

M.C. London Gazette 18 February, 1915.
M.I.D. London Gazette 17 February, 1915 (Sir John French’s despatch of 20 November, 1914).
Ian Douglas Dalrymple was commissioned, 2nd Battalion, Highland Light Infantry, at Fort George on 25 March, 1908. Promoted Lieutenant in 1911, he arrived at the Western Front on 13 November, 1914, and was promoted Temporary Captain on the day following. He served at the Retreat from Mons, Ypres, Langemark Ghelwelt, Festubert and Neuve Chappelle. His name was submitted for gallantry in November 1914 after a heavy attack on German trenches in which they took 54 prisoners, 80 killed and wounded. Dalrymple was twice wounded in 1914 and rejoined the Expeditionary Force, attached 2/K.O.S.B., on 27 April, 1915, at Ypres. He was killed in action on 5 May, 1915, and is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
These medals, and those of his cousin (see following lot), were sold by the Countess of Normanton at Sotheby in December, 1964.