Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (1645 Sjt. Piper. D. Wright A. & S. Highrs.); British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Capt. P. Rothera.; A. M. Baillie-Hamilton. B.R.C. & St. J.J.; 3969 Pte. L. Whitaker. Camerons.) last officially re-impressed; together with a large bronze medallion commemorating the Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, 77mm, good very fine (5) £120-£160

Douglas Wright served with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders during the Great War on the Western Front from 15 December 1914.

Sir Percy Rothera was born in 1877 and was educated at Rugby. He joined the South Indian Railway as an assistant Engineer in 1898, and served with the Mesopotamian Expeditionary Force during the Great War, for which services he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire and was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 5 June 1919). He was appointed Chief Engineer of the South Indian Railway in 1925, and was knighted by the Viceroy of India on 12 February 1931 (London Gazette 31 March 1931). He died in 1940.

Miss Aline Melrose Baillie-Hamilton was born in 1879, the daughter of the Rev. George Baillie-Hamilton, Vicar of Waverton, Cheshire, and served with the British Red Cross at Paris Unit No. 5 during the Great War in France from 6 October 1914.

Jenny Lind (1820-87) was a Swedish opera singer. She was one of the most celebrated sopranos of the 19th century, often known as the ‘Swedish Nightingale’.

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