Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Three: Private P. L. Orr, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, who died of wounds on the Western Front on 4 January 1917
British War and Victory Medals (S-22435 Pte. P. L. Orr. Camerons.); Memorial Plaque (Peter Orr) good very fine

Pair: Second Lieutenant J. S. Orr, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders
British War and Victory Medals (2.Lieut. J. S. Orr.) nearly extremely fine

Pair: Private J. K. Orr, Scottish Rifles
British War and Victory Medals (235309 Pte. J. K. Orr. Sco. Rif.) very fine (7) £200-£240

Peter Lightbody Orr was born in Dalziel, Lanarkshire, on 22 October 1893, and served on the Western Front with 'B' Company, 5th Battalion, Cameron Highlanders. The Hamilton Advertiser of 13 January 1917, adds:
'Orr. -died of wounds received in action, on 16 December, 1916, in a Field Ambulance on 4 January, 1917. Peter Lightbody Orr, Cameron Highlanders, aged 22 years, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Wm. K. Orr, Symington, Motherwell.'

He is buried in Habarcq Communal Cemetery Extension in the Pas-de-Calais.

James Symington Orr was born at Motherwell, Lanarkshire, on 27 March 1899. Appointed to a Commission in the Cameron Highlanders on 23 March 1918, he graduated from the University of Glasgow in 1926 and appears to have worked as an Assistant Senior Medical Officer.

John Kirk Orr was born at Dalziel, Lanarkshire, on 4 July 1898. He enlisted into the 10th Battalion, Scottish Rifles, on 10 February 1916, and is recorded in his Army Service Record as suffering a gunshot wound to the thigh which resulted in paralysis of the nerves. He later became a dental student in Glasgow.

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