Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War ‘Western Front’ M.M. to Private W. Darling, Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

Military Medal, G.V.R. (213 Pte., 2/A.& S. Hdrs.) edge bruising, nearly very fine £260-300

M.M. London Gazette 18 June 1917.

William Darling was born in Barony, Lanarckshire and enlisted at Glasgow. Serving with the 2nd Battalion Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, he won the M.M. but was killed in action, France/Flanders, on 17 April 1918, aged 29 years. Having no known grave his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial. He was the son of John B. Darling of 140 Duke Street, Glasgow. See lots 684 and 863 for other medals to the ‘Darling’ family.