A 2Nd Midlothian & Peebles Rifle Volunteers Helmet Plate Auction Archive Just prior to the advance

Just prior to the advance Major Pearkes was wounded in the thigh

accounting for 16 of the 31 Axis vessels sunk

complicated by myelitis

he was declared fit to return to service

A 2Nd Midlothian & Peebles Rifle Volunteers Helmet Plate Auction Archive Just prior to the advanceA 2nd Midlothian & Peebles Rifle Volunteers Helmet Plate 1880 1888. An eight pointed star with the top ray removed and replaced with Queen Victoria's Crown. An excellent garland of laurel leaves surrounds a quoit inscribed "2nd MIDLOTHIAN & PEEBLES. R. V." The Cross and the Star of the Order of the Thistle surrounding a quoit inscribed "NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSIT". Two thistles adorn the bottom of the quoit with St Andrew and the Cross to the non voided