Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

An Army Long Service and Good Conduct Medal awarded to Private D. R. Urquhart, Seaforth Highlanders, later Army Service Corps, who was wounded in action during the Boer War at the Battle of Magersfontein

Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (22029 Pte. D. R. Urquhart. A.S.C.) edge bruise, very fine £70-£90

David Ross Urquhart was born in the Parish of Kincardine, Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, in 1872. A shoeing smith by trade, he joined the Seaforth Highlanders at Fermoy on 15 September 1892 and served overseas during the Chitral Campaign of 1895. Subsequently serving in South Africa during the Boer War from 21 October 1899 to 4 November 1902, his Army Service Record notes that he was wounded in the thigh at Magersfontein on 11 December 1899. Re-engaging for the Army Service Corps at Dublin on 12 November 1903, he was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal per Army Order 92 of 1911, and was discharged on 7 September 1913.

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