War Medals

SECOND-LIEUTENANT E.M.C. TENNANT, 4TH.BN. GORDON HIGHLANDERS : DIED OF WOUNDS 16 OCTOBER 1916

1914-15 Star (2.Lieut. Gord. Highrs.); British War Medal; Victory Medal 1914-19 (2.Lieut.); Memorial Plaque - Edward Martin Cookes Tennant) : (EDWARD MARTIN COOKES TENNANT : Born 30 August 1896 at Aberdeen, the son of Edward Tennant, Insurance Secretary and his wife Jessie Ann Ross Tennant, educated at Aberdeen Grammar School, where on 29 April 1913 he joined the Grammar School Company of 4th.Gordon Highlanders, as 1460 Private. In 1914 he had completed his first year of science at the University and was mobilised on the outbreak of war. He was training at Bedford until May 1915, when he was granted a Commission as Second-Lieutenant in the same Battalion effective from 6 May 1915. He entered France from 24 June 1915 and was wounded at Hooge on 25 September 1915, the First Day of the Battle of Loos, when he was hit by a piece of shrapnel which penetrated his right shoulder. Two days later he was evacuated to England aboard the SS. 'Brighton'. On 25 January 1916 he was pronounced fit for active duty and returned to his Battalion in France in May of that year. On 16 October 1916 at Serre, he was in command of a party covering a raid on the German trenches when he was mortally wounded. He was admitted to 1/2nd. Highland Field Ambulance but died the same day. Letters written by his Colonel and fellow Officers show the respect and affection in which he was held - "Always bright, willing and keen, always punctual and painstaking in his duties and ready to do anything that was asked of him without the slightest grumble. Brave without ostentation, thorough without fuss, he was a favourite with Officers and men alike." He was just twenty years of age at the date of his death. He was buried at Bertrancourt Military Cemetery, France.) : Sold with verification, copy Officer's Service Papers, copy CWGC. information and copy entry taken from the Aberdeen Grammar School Roll of Honour, which includes a small portrait photograph of the recipient . Medals mounted on original silk ribbons and virtually as Minted - £865