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From: "Andy Slaven" <>
Subject: Re: [WW1] medal confusion
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 22:27:16 +0800
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Tom
How would another Scottish Regiment, The Cameronians (Scottish Rifles) be
represented on the medals. When I first saw "Camerons" on the medal. I
presumed it stood for the Cameronians.

thanks
Andy Slaven
Western Australia

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Tulloch-Marshall" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 12:44 AM
Subject: Re: [WW1] medal confusion


> Andy - both the BW and V Medals should be named identically, and the
obvious
> *guess* is that the medal named to the Highland Light Infantry was not
your
> grandfather's.
>
> "Camerons" were the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders (79th Foot). Medals to
> that regiment are found with at least two forms of title - "Camerons",
which
> is most common on the BW & V pair, and "Cam'n Highrs" which is most common
> on the 1914 and 1914-15 Stars - it is not at all unusual to find a Star
trio
> to any given man in the 79th worded one way on the Star and the other way
on
> the pair.
>
> The number and unit as given on the medals reflect the man's attachment
when
> he first went overseas and take no account of any subsequent transfers.
You
> need to look at the service medal records to see if any such transfers
took
> place.
>
> regards
> --
> Tom Tulloch-Marshall
> Great War Military Research
>
> http://www.btinternet.com/~prosearch
>
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