reverse illustrating a red cross on a shield flanked by leafing and inscribed "TO THE PRESIDENT AND PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA / THE GRATITUDE OF THE SWISS FAMILIES / 1918" below
disembarking at Durban on May 20th
4 District Depot in Montreal
Captain Martin was severely wounded in the thorax and the abdomen (just below the right shoulder) when a musket ball entered his back and fractured two transproceps of the dorsal and the mixable dict
maker marked "G10" on the reverse
A First War Group To The King's Own Scottish Borderers; Kia At Gallipoli Newly Listed reverse illustrating a red cross1914 15 Star (17635 Pte T. BLACK. K. O. SCO: BORD:); British War Medal (17635 PTE. T. BLACK. K. O. SCO. BORD.); and Victory Medal (17635 PTE. T. BLACK. K. O. SCO. BORD.). Un mounted, two with original ribbons, light contact, edge nicks on the VM, near extremely fine. Footnote: 17635 Private Thomas Black, King's Own Scottish Borderers, was killed in action on June 4, 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign and is remembered with honour on the Helles