Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Lance-Corporal A. McGilvray, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, who was killed in action on the Western Front, 18 August 1916

1914-15 Star (406. Pte. A. Mc Gilvray, A. & S. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (406 Pte. A. Mc Gilvray. A. & S. Highrs.) BWM officially re-impressed; Memorial Plaque (Archibald McGilvray) in card envelope; Memorial Scroll ‘L/Cpl. Archibald McGilvray Arg. & Suth’d Highrs.’, mounted in a glazed display frame; with Buckingham Palace enclosure, about extremely fine (5) £240-£280

Archibald McGilvray was born in Oban, Argyllshire, and attested there for the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. He served with the 2nd Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 19 December 1914, and was killed in action on 18 August 1916, on which date the Battalion was involved in the attack on High Wood, Somme Sector, and suffered 189 casualties. He has no known grave, and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, France.

Sold with an Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders cap badge; and a brass plaque bearing the Regimental badges and impressed ‘Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 406. McGillvray [sic]. A.’