Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Three: Second Lieutenant A. H. Kinnear, 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders, late Army Cyclist Corps, who died from gas poisoning in July 1917
1914-15 Star (1589 Pte. A. H. Kinnear. A. Cyc. Corps.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. A. H. Kinnear.) together with identity bracelet

Pair: Corporal D. T. Kinnear, 15th Battalion, Royal Scots, who was killed in action in August 1916
British War and Victory Medals (17130 Cpl. D. T. Kinnear. R. Scots.) good very fine (6) £140-£180

Alexander Hope Kinnear was born in 1895, son of William Tait Kinnear and Janet Agnes Kinnear, Schoolmaster, Kirkbuddo, and later Walden, Linksfield, Leven, Fife. He was a pupil of Forfar Academy 1906-11, and passed into St Andrew’s University but left when war broke out. He served in France from 4 July 1915, with the Army Cyclists Corps of the 15th Division. He was commissioned into the 6th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders on 5 March 1916, serving in Belgium until he was wounded. On return to France he died from gas poisoning on 19 July 1917, aged 22, and is buried in Dozinghem Military Cemetery.

David Tait Kinnear was born in 1889, son of William Tait Kinnear, as above. He was killed in action in France on 4 August 1916, and is commemorated by name on the Thiepval Memorial.