Played for Hearts, followed Celtic, fought Chinese, Koreans and likely 'Dropped a Mau Mau' all achieved by the time he turned Twenty : Private John 'Johnnie' McAuslan, 1st Battalion Black Watch

Minor official correction of single letter 'C' in surname - and a common occurrence with this particular campaign medal issue, and exactly as issued

- Korea Medal 1950-53 (22574296 Pte. J. McAuslan. B.W.)
- United Nations Service Medal: With clasp 'Korea'

Medals Verification: The medal rolls for post 1948 campaigns are not yet in the public domain, however basis a contemporary newspaper article, it would appear that Private McAuslan was entitled to the Korean Medals as well as an additional AGSM for his National Service with 1st Battalion Black Watch

- Korea Medal: Automatic award to British Army serving in Korea
- UN Service Medal: With clasp 'Korea': Automatic entitlement for those awarded the UK Korea Medal
- Africa General Service Medal 1902. EIIR issue with clasp 'Kenya': See below cited newspaper article

A visiting Scottish journalist embedded with 1/BW in the forward areas of the Aberdare Forest range, Kenya Colony, wrote a lengthy article that was published in the 'Daily Record' newspaper issue of, 16 February 1954, and which we are below quoting in part that is relevant to Private McAuslan:

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Nothing at all? Don't believe it. BLACK WATCH'S LITTLE WHITE LIE

From STANLEY BONNETT.

No Man's Land. Aberdare's, Kenya.

In fifteen months and just as many days, the sun-tanned Jocks who lie here to-day, waiting for Mau Mau to cross their sights, will be back in Scotland. In May next year, with three years overseas behind them, the 1st Battalion The Black Watch, these self-same soldiers will be telling you that "Kenya, was just nothing at all."

DON'T BELIEVE IT.

I look at them now crouched in the thorn, wet with sweat, ochre-red with the soil of these Mau Mau riddled hills. Hot, and shadowy.

Above knit the branches of the forest. Higher still, staining brown the fierce blue equatorial blue sky, swirl the locust-and the vultures.

Kenya, youngest and most turbulent of colonies, is no paradise for soldiers.

But whatever happens to Mau Mau, it is here in this land of 80 tribes, 40,000 Europeans and 5713 square miles of forest, that the Royal Highland Regiment, the 42nd of Foot, will stay until another springs stirs the bulbs in the gardens of Scotland.

That's a fact.

The Commander-in-Chief, bluff General Sir George Erskine, told me so himself.

I told the Jocks. They wiped the perspiration from their eyes with the back of tattooed arms, and wished they shared the luck of Prive John McAuslan, from 61 Dalton Street, Parkhead, Glasgow.

In April, 20-year-old Johnnie, a National Serviceman who played for Hearts, will have ceased being right back for "A" Company and will have exchanged jungle patrols for his civilian job as a slater. 

If you can persuade him to stop talking about Celtic, ask about the night a Mau Mau came from nowhere and didn't halt when "Simama" was shouted....Then you will know what Kenya is like.....

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The above inference is that Private McAuslan dropped the Mau Mau who surprised him......

Important: There was only a single - male - 'J. McAuslan' of National Service age who could have served in the Korean War & Mau Mau Rebellion, who was born in Scotland during the years 1929-1934, vis John McAuslan whose birth was registered in 'Kelvin', Glasgow, Scotland  in 1933- and whose death was registered in Glasgow (Martha St) during 1988 

Condition: GVF

Code: 25472