A Jock casualty '1st Day Battle of the Somme' later 'Killed-in-Action' Great War medal pair: Corporal Joseph William Tweedie, 11th Battalion Royal Scots late 2nd & 15th (City of Edinburgh) Battalion's Royal Scots

- British War Medal. Silver issue (17263 Cpl. J. W. Tweedie. R. Scots.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (17263 Cpl. J. W. Tweedie. R. Scots.)

Sold together with;

- Original named card box of issue (a/f)

Wounded-in-Action 1st Day Battle of the Somme: Private Joseph William Tweedie, 15th (City of Edinburgh) Battalion Royal Scots is confirmed 'Wounded' in the abdomen by Gunshot & Shrapnel Wound (or, GSW) on, 1 July 1916 (his extant service papers held & accessible at The National Archives refer)

Killed-in-Action: Corporal Joseph William Tweedie, 11th Battalion Royal Scots, is confirmed to have been Killed-in-Action, in France, on, 6 June 1917

The memory of the life and supreme sacrifice of Corporal Joseph William Tweedie, son of, Joseph William and Agnes Nicholson Tweedie, of Greenlea, Annan, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, is commemorated in perpetuity by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, on a regimental panel bearing his service details at the Arras Memorial, France

Medals verification: The campaign medal pair is confirmed as the full medal entitlement in respect of Private J.W. Tweedie's Great War service, per below following cited medal rolls

- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/631 shows in order served 15th, 2nd & 11th Battalions Royal Scots
- Interallied Victory Medals: WO 329/631 shows in order served with 15th, 2nd & 11th Battalions Royal Scots

The Dumfries and Galloway Standard & Advertiser, issue of, 20 June 1917, contained the below following obituary:

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ANNAN SOLDIER KILLED

Mr and Mrs Tweedie, Greenlea, Arran, have received intimation that their son, Corporal Joseph William Tweedie, Royal Scots, was killed in action in France on 5th June. He was employed in the town clerk's office, Kirkcaldy, at the outbreak of war, and soon after joined the Edinburgh battalion of the Royal Scots. After training, the battalion went to France, and was in various engagements. He was wounded in the Somme battle of July last year., but recovered, and was out again at the end of the year. His company officer writes "I deeply regret that your son, Corporal Tweedie, has been killed in action. He was in command of a section of rifle grenades, and after taking the position he set out to take, was, I am sorry to say, killed. He always did his duty well and conscienceley in the trenches and out: and in losing your son I lost one of my most trustworthy and efficient non-commissioned officers." As a lad he was for some years with Messrs Carruthers and Robertson, solicitors, Annan. He was twenty-eight years of age.

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A poignant Killed-in-Action casualty pair of medals to a Scottish soldier who had been 'Wounded' and had survived the slaughter of the 1st Day of the Battle of the Somme, only to be promoted and later returned to the Western Front, where while serving with a different battalion of the Royal Scot, was Killed-in-Action 'Battle of the Somme'.

The medals choice, virtually pristine

Condition: EF

Code: 24342