Q.S.A Medal 4 Bars to Pte. J. McBride, 1st Bttln. Gordon Highlanders SOLD

Description

Queen’s South Africa Medal 4 Bars – Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, and Belfast to 1506 Pte. J. McBride 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders   SOLD

Condition – E.F.

Pte. J. McBride was a member of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders when the Boer War broke out. He arrived in South Africa in November 1899 where the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders joined Brigadier-General Smith-Dorien’s 14th Brigade of the 9th Division. Pte. McBride first saw action at the disastrous Battle of Magersfontein on 11 December 1899.

After the Defence of Belfast on 7 January 1901, the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders continued operations in South Africa. Pte. McBride remained there until the battalion returned home to Great Britain in early 1902.

This is a very desirable medal to a highly distinguished Regiment that saw much action in the Boer War. Altogether, during the Boer War, the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders lost 58 men killed and 197 wounded.