Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private D. Hutchison, Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders

Queen’s Sudan 1896-98 (3780. Pte. D. Hutchison. 1/Cam: Hdrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen (3780 Pte. D. Hutchison, 1: Cam’n: Hdrs:); King’s South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (3780 Pte. D. Hutchison. Cameron Highrs:); Khedive’s Sudan 1896-1908, 2 clasps, The Atbara, Khartoum (3780 Pte. Hutohinson [sic] 1 Cam. Highrs.) contemporarily engraved in the usual Regimental style, mounted court-style for display, edge bruising and contact marks, good fine and better (4) £400-£500

David Hutchison was born in Markinch, Fifeshire, in 1877 and attested for the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders at Perth on 20 February 1896, having previously served in the 6th Volunteer Battalion, Royal Highlanders. He served with the 1st Battalion in Egypt and the Sudan from 4 October 1897 to 2 March 1900, and then in South Africa during the Boer War from 3 March 1900 to 9 October 1902, He transferred to the Army Reserve on 20 February 1903, and was discharged on 19 February 1908, after 12 years’ service.

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