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• The E-Sylum: Volume 9, Number 47, November 19, 2006, Article 33
  

  VETERAN LEAVES BRITISH WAR MEDAL COLLECTION TO REGIMENTAL MUSEUM
  

  "A Black Watch hero has left his entire collection of rare war medals
  worth £200,000 to his old regiment.
  

  Sid Lunn spent every penny of his busman's wages buying up awards won
  by Black Watch soldiers."
  

  His collection includes medals awarded for gallantry in the Peninsular
  War worth as much as £5000.
  

  There are also medals from the Boer War, the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny,
  First World War, Second World War and more recent campaigns. The oldest
  is from the Black Watch campaign against Napoleon's troops in Egypt in
  1801.
  

  Sid was a private with the regiment and fought the Nazis in North
  Africa, Italy, France and Germany. He was wounded at the Battle of El
  Alamein.
  

  His medal collection will now go on public display at the regimental
  museum at Balhousie Castle, Perth.
  

  Black Watch Major Ronnie Proctor said: "His collection has got to be
  one of the finest in Britain."
  

  To read the complete article, see: Full Story
  

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• http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v09n47a33.html

Date publiée

• 2006-11-19

Volume

• 9

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Auteur NNP

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