Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Private A. Turner, Scots Guards
1914-15 Star (11991 Pte A. Turner. S. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (11991 Pte. A. Turner. S. Gds.) mounted as worn, good very fine

1914-15 Star (20654 Pte. T. Price. S. Lan. R.) very fine (4) £60-£80

Andrew Turner, a native of Cousland Park, Dalkeith, enlisted in the Scots Guards on 7 November 1914 and joined the 2nd Battalion in France on 23 April 1915. His active service career was short-lived, however, for he was among those wounded when the battalion suffered heavy casualties at Festubert in the following month, when his name appeared on the War Office Casualty List of 30 May 1915; such was the serious nature of a gunshot wound to his right arm that it had to be amputated. Entitled to wear a wound stripe as per Army Order 204 of 6 July 1916, he was discharged in the following month and awarded the Silver War Badge.

Thomas Price enlisted in the South Lancashire Regiment on 8 September 1914 and was posted to the 11th Battalion, otherwise known as ‘St. Helen’s Pioneers’. Embarked for France in November 1915, he was discharged in March 1918.