BRITISH ARMY 3RD BURMA WAR, BOER WAR & WW1 MEDAL GROUP 942 THOMAS RENNIE KING’S OWN SCOTTISH BORDERERS

Description

Offered is a medal group to a long serving member of ther King’s Own Scottish Borderers, Private T. Rennie, who served in the Indian Chin Lushai Campaign of 1889, the 2nd Anglo Boer War of 1899, finishing his military career in the grisly duty of the exhumation and burial section of the Labour Corps.

India General Service Medal (1854) with clasp CHIN LUSHAI 1889 – 90, period engraved in sloping script 942. Pte T. Rennie. 1^st Bⁿ. K. O. SCO. Bord. Queens South Africa Medal 1899, 3 clasps CAPE COLONY, PAARDEBERG, JOHANNESBURG, impressed named 942 P^TE T.RENNY. K.O. SCOTT: BORD: Comes with copy service papers, medal rolls & research.

Also entitled to clasp SOUTH AFRICA 1901. Note the naming on the QSA, should be RENNIE not RENNY. 1919 served exhumation Companies in France.

Thomas Rennie was born in 1866 in Canongate, Edinburgh, who was working as a labourer when he enlisted into the Kings Own Scottish Borderers on the 29/4/1884 at Berwick on Tweed. He was posted to the 2^nd Battalion but on the 2/10/1885 he was transferred to the 1^st Battalion for service in India. He was serving in India 2/10/1885 – 2/11/89 when the battalion was deployed to Burma 3/11/1889 – 6/2/1891. The Battalion was involved in the campaign against the Chin tribesmen 1889 -90. There were 2 European Battalions involved 1^st Bn Cheshire Regiment (300) & 1^st Bn King’s Own Scottish Borderers (500) He returned to Edinburgh and discharged 27/4/1896 at the completion of his 5 year engagement. After a month off he re-signed on 25/5/1896 and served home until deploying to South Africa 5/1/190 – 22/4/1901. He returned to England to discharge on the 24/6/1901.

On the 9/6/1919 he joined the Army again but enlisted into the Labour Corps with the serial number 703975, he served in France 8/7/1919 – 20/4/1920. Serial number 700,000 to 711,000, 1919 enlistments for exhumation Companies in France. He returned to England to discharge 29/4/1920.

The 33rd, 34th, 35th, 36th and 37th (Labour) Battalions formed at Seaford (33rd) and Falmer (34th to 37th) in May and June 1916. In April 1917 these battalions became the 99th to 108th Labour Companies, Labour Corps.