Orders, Decorations and Medals

Three: Private Frank Burns, Gordon Highlanders
India General Service 1895-1902, 2 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Tirah 1897-98 (5010 Pte., 1st Bn. Gord. Hrs.); Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Johannesburg, Belfast (5010 Pte., Gordon Highrs.); King’s South Africa, 2 clasps, contact marks and edge bruising, therefore good fine and better (3)

Frank Burns, a Mill worker from Dundee, enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders at Dundee in March 1894. He was dangerously wounded by a gunshot in the left shoulder at the storming of the Dargai Heights, 20 October 1897. In South Africa he was one of fifteen men of the regiment injured by lightning at Belfast on 31 January 1901. Sold with copy service papers and other research.