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Auction: 13001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 554

Commemorative Medal for Service to the Cameronians Scottish Rifles 1689-1968 (Captain John A. Peebles. 5th. Btl. 30.4.1918), good very fine

Captain John Adair Peebles, of Carnoustie, Forfarshire; served during the Great War on the Western Front with the 5th Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles); killed in action, 30.4.1918, and is buried in Nine Elms British Cemetery, Belgium.

The Cameronians were originally raised as the Cameronian Guard in April 1689, and renamed the 26th Foot in 1751. In 1881 they merged with the 90th Foot (Perthshire Volunteers) to form the Cameronians (Scottish Rifles), and, rather than amalgamate with another Regiment, were disbanded in May 1968.

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