Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5774 Pte. J. McLaren. Scots Guards.) edge bruise, contact marks, otherwise very fine £50-£70

James McLaren, a printer from St. Cuthbert Edinburgh, attested into the Scots Guards Militia before enlisting into the Scots Guards on 9 August 1883. Serving in the Army Reserve until September 1899, he re-enlisted on 9 October 1899 and served in South Africa with the 2nd Battalion during the Boer War from 15 March 1900 to 4 August 1902. Also entitled to a Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, and Wittebergen, he was discharged on 8 October 1903.