The 1st HLI were part of the 3rd Brigade, the famous Highland Brigade and did indeed fight exclusively on the Western Front in 1899, the battalion was not present or engaged as a whole on the 28th of November, but, I've certainly never thought of that particular clasp as scarce or for that matter, unusual in any way whatsoever as WO100/202 very clearly shows.
We have just had the one hundred and seventeenth anniversary of that really dreadful week of battles.
I think the obvious thing to do next, given that Captain Stirling hardly gives them the credit they deserve in his book, would be to see what Colonel Oatts had to say in his own regimental history.
meikle wrote: This very true Frank.
The family did not know until this week that their GF served in WW1. Therefore there are 3 medals missing including the SWB.
I've got masses of info on his battalion's WW1 actions but 1st HLI in the Boer War is more difficult to get under due to lack of war diaries (IMO).
So I'm still a bit mystified about, for example, the above mentioned Modder River clasp as I can't find the battalion getting a mention on that front.
