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QSA (3) Modder River, Orange Free State, Transvaal (6771 Pte. T. Mc'Fadyen, A.& S. Highrs:)

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QSA (1) Mod R (6552 Pte. A. Mc’Neill. A. & S. Highrs.)
One rim dent. Neill impressed in a different style.

The losses of the 1st Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders at Modder River were greater than any of the other battalions engaged: 20 men killed or died of wounds and 2 officers and 76 men wounded. Mc’Neill was one of the men killed on 28 November, is buried in the West End Graveyard in Kimberley and is also commemorated on the A & S Highlanders SA War Memorial at Stirling Castle, Scotland.

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QSA (1) CC (4405, Serjt. B.J. Kelly. A. & S. Highrs.)

Engraved naming. Sgt Kelly was Killed in Action at Magersfontein and is buried in Kimberley.

In this action the Regiment lost 23 men killed with one of the wounded dying the same day.

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QSA (3) Mod R, Paard, Tvl (4182 Pte. W. Simms. A. & S. Highrs)

Pte Simms was wounded at Koedoesberg Drift on 7 February 1900, the penultimate day of the drawn-out skirmish.

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QSA (2) CC, OFS (1296 Pte. J. McLaren, A. & S. Highrs.)

McLaren was one of the 33 men wounded at Roodepoort on 28 May 1900.

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QSA (4) Relief of Kimberley, Paardeberg, Driefontein, Transvaal (4176. Serjt. Heatley [sic]. 79/Highrs.);
KSA (2) (4176 Clr:-Serjt: J. Heatley [sic]. A. & S. Highrs:);
1914-15 Star (Q.M, & Lieut. J. Heatly. A. & S. Highrs.);
BWM and VM with MID oak leaves (Q.M. & Capt. J. Heatly.);
Army LS&GC EdVII (4176 S.Mjr: J. Heatly. A. & S. Hdrs.)

James Heatly was appointed Quartermaster (with the honorary rank of Lieutenant) in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders on 14 October 1911, and served with the 1st Battalion during the Great War on the Western Front from 20 December 1914. He was present throughout the Second Battle of Ypres, marching with the Battalion out of Ypres on 12 April 1915. For his services on the Western Front he was Mentioned in Despatches (LG 1 January 1916).

Heatly embarked with the 1st Battalion at Marseilles for service in Salonika on 27 November 1915, and served in that theatre for the remainder of the War, being again Mentioned in Despatches (LG 5 June 1919). He relinquished his appointment as Quartermaster on 15 June 1919, and returned to the UK on 18 August 1919.