Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Second Lieutenant J. L. Gow, King’s Own Scottish Borderers, late Royal Army Medical Corps, who was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut. J. L. Gow.) good very fine (2) £300-£400

James Lightfoot Gow attested for the Royal Army Medical Corps and served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 25 January 1916. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 9th Battalion, King’s Own Scottish Borderers on 10 April 1915, and was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1 July 1916, whilst attached to the 1st Battalion; on this date the battalion, involved in the attack in front of Beaumont-Hamel, suffered 552 casualties. Gow is buried in Knightsbridge Cemetery, Mesnil-Martinsart, Somme, France.