A 'Swinging Sixth' Jock Non Commissioned Officers Great War campaign and long service medal group of 3: Sergeant John Wardrope, Regimental Depot, late 14th (Service) and 1st Battalions Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders

- British War Medal. Silver issue (7869 Sjt. J. Wardrope. A. & S. Highrs.)
- Interallied Victory Medal (7869 Sjt. J. Wardrope. A. & S. Highrs.)
- Army LS&GC. GV 1st (7869 Sjt. J. Wardrope. A. & S. High.)

Medals Verification: All 3 x medals confirmed as entitled and the recipients full-medal entitlement after more then 18 years service with 'The Colours', per below following reference

- British War Medal. Silver: WO 329/1693. Shows served 14th (Service) Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/1693. Shows served 14th (Service) Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders
- Army LS&GC. GV 1st issue: C/O Regimental Depot published in Army Order of April 1921

John Clark Cooper Wardrope son of Robert Wardrope (a Fish Monger) and Agnes Wardrope (nee Cooper) was a native of, Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, where he was born, on 15 April 1883. John enlisted in the British Army on 14 or 15 January 1901 (No. 7868 Private Lachlan Bell of the Argylls enlisted on 14 January 1901, and No. 7874 Private George Christie of the Argylls enlisted on the 15 January 1901) and sent to the Regimental Depot of the
Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, located at Stirling Castle for completion of his basic training. He was subsequently posted to the 2nd Battalion Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. John married, Sarah McLean Paton in 1912. During the Great War John held the rank of Sergeant and was fortunate to have survived his active service in France, circa 1916-18, during which time he served with 14th (Service Battalion, Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders. John Wardrope took his discharge from the British Army in 1919, and returned to his family in Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland, where he took up an appointment with the General Post Office as a local area 'Postman'. During the Second World War, his only son John Randall Wardrope - a Private serving with the Royal Army Service Corps - was captured by Axis Forces in North Africa, and subsequently incarcerated as a Prisoner of War. John Clark Cooper Wardrope and his wife Sarah, lived at, Prieston Road, Bankfoot, Perthshire, Scotland. John C.C.Wardrope is recorded to have died at Perth Royal Infirmary hospital, Perth, Scotland on 5 June 1953

Condition: Mostly VF & better

Code: 25996