Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Private J. Lumsden, Royal Highlanders

British War Medal 1914-20 (292223 Pte. J. Lumsden. R. Highrs.); France, Third Republic, Croix de Guerre, bronze, reverse dated 1914-1918, nearly extremely fine (2) £50-£70

French Croix de Guerre London Gazette 18 April 1918.

John Lumsden attested for the Royal Highlanders on 29 October 1916 and served with the 1st/7th Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 29 April 1917. He was posted on attachment to the Intelligence Police Headquarters, Line of Communications Area Headquarters, 2nd Army, on 27 May 1917, and returned to the U.K. due to sickness on 30 September 1918, being posted to the Royal Highlanders Depot. He was demobilised on 7 March 1919.

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