A VERY FINE BOER WAR PAIR AWARDED TO AN OFFICER OF THE GORDON HIGHLANDERS, WHO WAS SEVERELY WOUNDED AT THE BATTLE OF ELANDSLAAGTE, 21 OCTOBER 1899, A BATTLE WHICH SAW THE BATTALION SUFFERING BY FAR THE HEAVIEST CASUALTIES AND THE WINNING OF TWO VC’S. RECOVERING FROM HIS WOUNDS, HE TOOK PART IN THE RELIEF OF LADYSMITH, WHERE IS BATTALION WAS NOW BESIEGED AND WAS PRESENT AT THE BATTLES OF COLENSO, SPION KOP, VAAL KRANZ; THE OPERATIONS ON THE TUGELA HEIGHTS AND PIETER’S HILL. MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES, HE REJOINED HIS BATTALION AFTER THE RELIEF AND WOULD BE TWICE MORE MENTIONED IN DESPATCHES BY WARS END

QUEEN’S SOUTH AFRICA 1899-1902, 6 CLASPS, CAPE COLONY, ELANDSLAAGTE, TUGELA HEIGHTS, RELIEF OF LADYSMITH, LAING’S NEK, BELFAST ‘CAPT: C. W. MCD. FINDLAY. GORDON HIGHRS’, KING’S SOUTH AFRICA 1901-02, 2 CLASPS, SOUTH AFRICA 1901, SOUTH AFRICA 1902 ‘CAPT. C. W. MCD. FINDLAY. GORD. HGRS.’

M.I.D. London Gazette 8 February 1901

M.I.D. London Gazette 10 September 1901

M.I.D. London Gazette 29 July 1902

Charles William McDiarmid Findlay was born in Edinburgh in October 1872 and was educated at Fettes. Commissioned into the Gordon Highlanders in May 1895, he was advanced to Lieutenant in November 1897 and to Captain in July 1900. At the outbreak of hostilities in South Africa, he was Transport Officer of the 2nd Battalion, an appointment he retained until he was severely wounded at Elandslaagte on 21 October 1899, suffering severe wounds in the arm and thigh………..

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Condition GVF, minor contact wear. Sold with copied research including three photographic images. Ex DNW 2007.

A very fine and very early Boer War Officer Casualty and multiple M.I.D. pair.