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Four: Private R. Allan, 92nd Highlanders, later Gordon Highlanders, who was the last...
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Four: Private R. Allan, 92nd Highlanders, later Gordon Highlanders, who was the last Glaswegian Survivor of the famous Kabul to Kandahar March
Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (B/120. Pte. R. Allan. 92nd. Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (56/120 Private Robt. Allan 92nd. Highlanders.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (379. Pte. R. Allen [sic]. 1/Gord: Highrs:); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear; together with a Gordon Highlanders 1st Volunteer Battalion Shooting Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by W. Duniolo Esqr. to F. Coy. 1st. V.B. G.H. 1902.’ with silver clasp and contemporary top silver riband buckle, light pitting and contact marks, very fine (5) £2,000-£2,400
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Robert Allan was born in Falkirk in 1853 and attested for the 92nd Highlanders at Stirling on 30 April 1874. Joining the regiment in Mooltan, the 92nd formed the Guard of Honour during the Prince of Wales' visit to India 1875-76, and were also in the Delhi parade in January 1877 when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
Following the outbreak of the Second Afghan War the regiment was sent to Camp Kohat, and for the next two years the 92nd was continuously on campaign, participating in a number of pitched battles and suffering casualties both in combat and from disease. Between 9 and 31 August 1880 Allan was one of those involved in the famous 310 mile march from Kabul to relieve the garrison in Kandahar. At the end of the campaign he was 'time expired' and was sent home where he was discharged in March 1881.
Recalled to the colours as a reservist in the following year, Allan was one of 155 reservists sent out with the newly-designated 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, for service during the Egyptian campaign. Given a new Regimental number (379), the incorrect spelling of his name on his Egypt medal as Allen is presumably a clerical error. Demobilised in Glasgow in 1883, he subsequently joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, and died in Bathgate, Glasgow on 22 July 1935. His death was marked by obituaries in the Scotsman and other local papers, and he had evidently become well known in the city as the last Glaswegian survivor of the Kabul to Kandahar march. The obituaries all mention him as having served in the Second Boer War; this is evidently a journalistic mistake for the First Boer War where the 92nd were briefly deployed en route from India at the end of their overseas service. He is buried in the Riddrie Cemetery, Glasgow.
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Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (B/120. Pte. R. Allan. 92nd. Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (56/120 Private Robt. Allan 92nd. Highlanders.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (379. Pte. R. Allen [sic]. 1/Gord: Highrs:); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear; together with a Gordon Highlanders 1st Volunteer Battalion Shooting Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by W. Duniolo Esqr. to F. Coy. 1st. V.B. G.H. 1902.’ with silver clasp and contemporary top silver riband buckle, light pitting and contact marks, very fine (5) £2,000-£2,400
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Robert Allan was born in Falkirk in 1853 and attested for the 92nd Highlanders at Stirling on 30 April 1874. Joining the regiment in Mooltan, the 92nd formed the Guard of Honour during the Prince of Wales' visit to India 1875-76, and were also in the Delhi parade in January 1877 when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
Following the outbreak of the Second Afghan War the regiment was sent to Camp Kohat, and for the next two years the 92nd was continuously on campaign, participating in a number of pitched battles and suffering casualties both in combat and from disease. Between 9 and 31 August 1880 Allan was one of those involved in the famous 310 mile march from Kabul to relieve the garrison in Kandahar. At the end of the campaign he was 'time expired' and was sent home where he was discharged in March 1881.
Recalled to the colours as a reservist in the following year, Allan was one of 155 reservists sent out with the newly-designated 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, for service during the Egyptian campaign. Given a new Regimental number (379), the incorrect spelling of his name on his Egypt medal as Allen is presumably a clerical error. Demobilised in Glasgow in 1883, he subsequently joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, and died in Bathgate, Glasgow on 22 July 1935. His death was marked by obituaries in the Scotsman and other local papers, and he had evidently become well known in the city as the last Glaswegian survivor of the Kabul to Kandahar march. The obituaries all mention him as having served in the Second Boer War; this is evidently a journalistic mistake for the First Boer War where the 92nd were briefly deployed en route from India at the end of their overseas service. He is buried in the Riddrie Cemetery, Glasgow.
Sold with a Regimental cap badge.
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Four: Private R. Allan, 92nd Highlanders, later Gordon Highlanders, who was the last Glaswegian Survivor of the famous Kabul to Kandahar March
Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (B/120. Pte. R. Allan. 92nd. Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (56/120 Private Robt. Allan 92nd. Highlanders.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (379. Pte. R. Allen [sic]. 1/Gord: Highrs:); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear; together with a Gordon Highlanders 1st Volunteer Battalion Shooting Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by W. Duniolo Esqr. to F. Coy. 1st. V.B. G.H. 1902.’ with silver clasp and contemporary top silver riband buckle, light pitting and contact marks, very fine (5) £2,000-£2,400
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Robert Allan was born in Falkirk in 1853 and attested for the 92nd Highlanders at Stirling on 30 April 1874. Joining the regiment in Mooltan, the 92nd formed the Guard of Honour during the Prince of Wales' visit to India 1875-76, and were also in the Delhi parade in January 1877 when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
Following the outbreak of the Second Afghan War the regiment was sent to Camp Kohat, and for the next two years the 92nd was continuously on campaign, participating in a number of pitched battles and suffering casualties both in combat and from disease. Between 9 and 31 August 1880 Allan was one of those involved in the famous 310 mile march from Kabul to relieve the garrison in Kandahar. At the end of the campaign he was 'time expired' and was sent home where he was discharged in March 1881.
Recalled to the colours as a reservist in the following year, Allan was one of 155 reservists sent out with the newly-designated 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, for service during the Egyptian campaign. Given a new Regimental number (379), the incorrect spelling of his name on his Egypt medal as Allen is presumably a clerical error. Demobilised in Glasgow in 1883, he subsequently joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, and died in Bathgate, Glasgow on 22 July 1935. His death was marked by obituaries in the Scotsman and other local papers, and he had evidently become well known in the city as the last Glaswegian survivor of the Kabul to Kandahar march. The obituaries all mention him as having served in the Second Boer War; this is evidently a journalistic mistake for the First Boer War where the 92nd were briefly deployed en route from India at the end of their overseas service. He is buried in the Riddrie Cemetery, Glasgow.
Sold with a Regimental cap badge.
Afghanistan 1878-80, 3 clasps, Charasia, Kabul, Kandahar (B/120. Pte. R. Allan. 92nd. Highrs.); Kabul to Kandahar Star 1880 (56/120 Private Robt. Allan 92nd. Highlanders.); Egypt and Sudan 1882-89, dated reverse, 1 clasp, Tel-El-Kebir (379. Pte. R. Allen [sic]. 1/Gord: Highrs:); Khedive’s Star, dated 1882, unnamed as issued, mounted for wear; together with a Gordon Highlanders 1st Volunteer Battalion Shooting Medal, silver, the reverse engraved ‘Presented by W. Duniolo Esqr. to F. Coy. 1st. V.B. G.H. 1902.’ with silver clasp and contemporary top silver riband buckle, light pitting and contact marks, very fine (5) £2,000-£2,400
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Robert Allan was born in Falkirk in 1853 and attested for the 92nd Highlanders at Stirling on 30 April 1874. Joining the regiment in Mooltan, the 92nd formed the Guard of Honour during the Prince of Wales' visit to India 1875-76, and were also in the Delhi parade in January 1877 when Queen Victoria was proclaimed Empress of India.
Following the outbreak of the Second Afghan War the regiment was sent to Camp Kohat, and for the next two years the 92nd was continuously on campaign, participating in a number of pitched battles and suffering casualties both in combat and from disease. Between 9 and 31 August 1880 Allan was one of those involved in the famous 310 mile march from Kabul to relieve the garrison in Kandahar. At the end of the campaign he was 'time expired' and was sent home where he was discharged in March 1881.
Recalled to the colours as a reservist in the following year, Allan was one of 155 reservists sent out with the newly-designated 1st Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, for service during the Egyptian campaign. Given a new Regimental number (379), the incorrect spelling of his name on his Egypt medal as Allen is presumably a clerical error. Demobilised in Glasgow in 1883, he subsequently joined the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Gordon Highlanders, and died in Bathgate, Glasgow on 22 July 1935. His death was marked by obituaries in the Scotsman and other local papers, and he had evidently become well known in the city as the last Glaswegian survivor of the Kabul to Kandahar march. The obituaries all mention him as having served in the Second Boer War; this is evidently a journalistic mistake for the First Boer War where the 92nd were briefly deployed en route from India at the end of their overseas service. He is buried in the Riddrie Cemetery, Glasgow.
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