Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Lance-Corporal M. McGhie, Seaforth Highlanders, who died of wounds in January 1918

Military Medal, G.V.R. (S-8770 Pte. M. McGhie, 8/Sea. Hdrs.); British War and Victory Medals (S-8770 Pte. M. McGhie, Seaforth), together Seaforth Highlanders cap badge, good very fine (4) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 22 January 1917.

Michael McGhie was a native of Dalziel, Motherwell, where he enlisted in the Lanarkshire Yeomanry in September 1914. Transferring to the Seaforth Highlanders at the year’s end, he was embarked for France as a reinforcement to the 8th Battalion in the first week of October 1915, in which capacity he won his M.M. for gallant deeds in the following year - almost certainly on the Somme.

Subsequently transferred to the 2nd Battalion, and advanced to Lance-Corporal, he died of wounds at No. 8 Casualty Clearing Station on 6 January 1918, and is buried in Duisans British Cemetery, Etrun. He left a widow, a resident of Woodside Walk, Hamilton; sold with a file of research, including copied remembrance scroll from the officials of Motherwell, family portrait photographs, and attestation papers in respect of the Lanarkshire Yeomanry.