A Collection of Medals to the 42nd Highlanders and 73rd Foot (Black Watch)

Wauchope Medal, silver, the obverse engraved ‘For Conspicuous Gallantry on Givenchy Hill Oct. 8th. 1915.’, the reverse engraved ‘2nd. Bn. The Black Watch to Pte. T. Lamb from Lt. Col. A. G. Wauchope’, in Elkington, London case of issue, with related lapel pin, good very fine £600-700

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the 42nd Highlanders and 73rd Foot (Black Watch).

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Approximately 70 Wauchope Medals were awarded to Non-Commissioned Officers and Men of the Royal Highlanders during the Great War; 60 for gallantry at the Battles of Loos and Mushaidie (the ‘Battle Beyond Baghdad’); and 10 to men who had specifically distinguished themselves scouting in No Man’s Land.

Thomas Lamb was the son of Mr and Mrs. C. Lamb of 3 Sinclair Street, Lochee, Dundee. He served during the Great War with the 2nd Battalion, Royal Highlanders, and was killed in action at Shaikh Saad, 7 January 1916.

Private Lamb is buried at Amara War Cemetery, Iraq.