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Six: Warrant Officer Class I J. Alexander, Highland
Light Infantry
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, one clasp, Modder River
(3506 Serjt: J. Alexander. Highland L.I.); King’s South
Africa 1901-02, two clasps (3506 Serjt: J. Alexander.
Highland L.I.); 1914-15 Star (3506 C.Sjt. (A.S.Mjr.) J.
Alexander. High: L.I.), number officially corrected; British
War and Victory Medals (3506 W.O. Cl.1 J. Alexander.
High. L.I.), VM lacking recipient’s initial; Army Long
Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st ‘Field Marshal’s bust’ type
(3506 C. Sjt: J. Alexander. H.L.I.), light contact marks to
QSA and KSA, otherwise good very fine or better (6)
£300-350
3506 Warrant Officer Class I John Alexander, enlisted in the
Highland Light Infantry, 1892; promoted Corporal, July 1893;
Sergeant, November 1895; granted Certificate, School of Musketry,
Hythe, June 1899; served with the 1st Battalion in South Africa and
wounded at Magersfontein, 11.12.1899, when the Battalion’s losses
throughout the day were 2 Officers and 12 men killed and 7
Officers, including the Commanding Officer, and 73 men
wounded- Corporal John Shaul, in charge of the Battalion’s
stretcher-bearers, was awarded the Victoria Cross at Magersfontein
for most conspicuous gallantry during the day in dressing men’s
wounds out in the open under continuous heavy fire, in one
instance ‘as calmly as if there had been no enemy near’; promoted
Colour Sergeant, July 1903.
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