A 'City of Edinburgh' Special Constable's Great War era group of 3 long service and royal commemorative medals: James McKinnon Manclark, J.P., Edinburgh Town Councillor, late Edinburgh Special Constabulary

- Jubilee Medal 1935
- Special Constabulary Long Service Medal. GV first issue (James M. Manclark)
- Edinburgh City Special Constabulary Long Service Medal 1914-18

Note: The Jubilee Medal is mounted separately on it's silver mounting bar, this latter retaining the original hinged pin and clasp fittings as issued. The Edinburgh medal complete with hinged pin brooch fitting to reverse of the suspension bar (the award was originally conceived to be worn 'sans' riband attached to the tunic by the brooch bar)

At a parade held on 6 June 1918, the City of Edinburgh Special Constabulary, mustered 480 x Foot Special Constables; 18 x Mounted Special Constables. The Edinburgh 'Specials' had the distinction of having both Mounted and Foot 'Specials', as well as Women's Patrols - the latter a rare early innovation in 1918!

The Scotman newspaper issue of 19 June 1945, contained the below following obituary pertaining to James McKinnon Manclark:

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Death of Edinburgh Town Councillor

Mr. James M'Kinnon Manclark, a well-known citizen of Edinburgh, died yesterday after a short illness. Head of the firm of Manclark & Son, clothing manufacturers, he was a man of many interests. As convenor of Trades, he had been a member of Edinburgh Town Council since 1940, while he was also Deacon of the Incorporation of Tailors, chairman of the Scottish Amicable Building Society, a director of the Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce, a former Moderator of the High Constables and a past president of the Edinburgh Rotary Club. He was associated with sport in various forms, and was a founder member of the Scottish Amateur Billiards Association, of which he was president for many years. He was 72 years of age, and survived by his only son.

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James McKinnon Manclark, eldest son of James Meiklejohn Manclark (Clothier) & Margaret Dallas Blair McKinnon was a native of, the Hutchesonstown district of. Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, where he was born on, 4 March 1872. By 1891, the family had relocated to Leith, Midlothian. James McKinnon Manclark, married Elizabeth Mary McCankie, in the parish of St, Andrew, Edinburgh, in 1906. The Manclarks were subsequently blessed with a son, Norman McKinnon Manclark who was born in 1907, and who remained their only child. The Edinburgh newspapers of circa 1910-1945 contain many articles pertaining to James McKinnon Manclark - and far too many to list or mention here. James McKinnon Manclark, late of, 54 Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, Scotland is recorded to have died in Edinburgh, Scotland, on, 18 June 1945

The earlier Great War era medals mounted as-worn by the recipient in the swing-style. The reverse of the medal mounting bar retaining its original long hinged pin and clasp fittings

Condition: About EF

Code: 22504