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Auction: 11010 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 78

Three: Private W.G. Cadenhead, Scottish Horse Yeomanry and Machine Gun Corps 1914-15 Star (2392 Pte. W. Cadenhead. 1-Sco. H.); British War and Victory Medals (2392 Pte. W.G. Cadenhead. 1-Sco. H.), VM officially renamed, good very fine, with the recipient´s related miniature awards; riband bar; Robert Gordon´s College, Aberdeen, prize medal, bronze, reverse engraved ´Awarded to William G. Cadenhead, 1909-10´; Scottish Horse prize medal, silver (Hallmarks for Birmingham 1913), reverse engraved ´Maxim Gun Competition´; and a comprehensive file of research including a copy of The Memoirs of an Ordinary Man, by the recipient, and various photographic images of the recipient (3) Estimate £ 80-100 2392 Private William George Cadenhead, born Aberdeen, April 1896; educated at Robert Gordon´s College, Aberdeen; enlisted in the Scottish Horse Yeomanry, 28.2.1914, and served with them during the Great War at Gallipoli from 1.9.1915, and with the Machine Gun Corps and Imperial Camel Corps in Egypt and Palestine; wounded at Beersheba, 17.3.1917, when a bullet entered his lung only an inch from the heart, which meant nine months in hospital (it was not until 1928 that the bullet was discovered still firmly lodged in the recipient´s lung- due to its position it was inoperable and remained in his lung for the rest of his life); discharged as a result of his wounds, 4.8.1919. In 1917 Cadenhead began a long association with the Y.M.C.A., when the Association built a large forces´ centre near Cairo; after the War he served as Secretary of the Y.M.C.A. in Ripon, Barnsley, Swansea, and Birmingham, finally retiring in 1957 after 40 years´ service. He died at home in Fareham, Hampshire in 1970.

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