Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E.

British War Medal 1914-20 (3) (Lt. Col. W. L. Forbes; Capt. T. Law; 2 Lieut. A. Ramsay) very fine and better (3) £60-80

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Medals from the Collection of Brigadier Brian Parritt, C.B.E..

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Lieutenant-Colonel W. L. Forbes, Black Watch, served in the Afghan War 1879-80 at Kandahar (Medal with clasp); the Burmese Expedition 1886-7 as Assistant to the Brigade Commissariat Officer (Medal with two clasps); the South African War 1899 – 1902, serving with the Imperial Light Horse, serving in operations in Natal 1899, including the action at Elandslaagte, where he was severely wounded. He was afterwards employed with Remount Department (Q.S.A. with four clasps, K.S.A. with two clasps). On 20 May 1915 he is shown as Temporary Lieutenant-Colonel commanding the 4th (City of Dundee) Battalion, Black Watch (Royal Highlanders).

T. Law became a 2nd Lieutenant in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry on 19 September 1914. In the August 1916 Army List he is shown as a Temporary Captain with effect on 1 July 1915 in the 2nd Battalion Queens Own Royal Glasgow Regiment. In December 1918 while still in that regiment, he is shown as having been attached to the 13th Battalion Essex Regiment since 1 June 1916.