The recipient was Private Sandy Grewar, a national serviceman, who held the rank of Private while service with the 1st Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment)The Dundee based newspaper the Courier And Advertiser issue of 14 October 1953, contained the below following article pertaining to the recipients service in Kenya Colony:Quote,Mother urges more food for Black WatchMrs Violet Grewar, Lilybank, Little Brechin, Angus, whose son is fighting the Mau Mau with the 1st Battalion The Black Watch has started a campaign to have their rations increased.Yesterday, she told the ''Courier,'' 'I'm writing my M.P., Mr. Colin N. Thornton-Kemsley, asking him to take the matter-up.'Sandy has never complained to me because he knows I have only my widow's pension,' she said referring to her 18 year-old son, who is six feet six.'I'm not taking it up so much for Sandy, but for all the others. But, I know he'll be taking it bad, too. I needed almost a pan of tatties for him.'Her son has been in Kenya since July. In the last month Mrs. Grewar has sent five parcels to him.'A friend of mine received a letter from her boy who is serving with Sandy, telling her to send a parcel right away, no matter what the price. It costs that boy £2 10s postage - his mother had to take it from his bank account - for a two-pounds, some biscuits and sweets.'Sandy will be 19 on Saturday, and a month ago a big birthday cake was posted to him cake.Unquote.In a word 'brilliant'.......Presumably the towering height of 'Big Sandy' who as his 'mither' wrote had a great appetite for 'spuds & cake' would have singled him out in equal measure to his African enemies as a potential 'trophy' target as well as a 'Jock to Fear'! 1st Battalion Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment) arrived in, Kenya Colony, on, 1 August 1953, where they replaced the 1st Battalion Lancashire Fusiliers, in the 39th Infantry Brigade. 1/BW was soon dispersed at various locations around the Rift Valley region; A Coy with battalion HQ at Nyeri; B Coy at Gilgil, with C & D Coy's at Ol Joro Orok near Thompson FallsUncommonly for the Mau Mau Rebellion, the Black Watch has been blessed with a useful 'Other Ranks' memoir published in the past decade, that covers in good detail, the regiments service in Kenya Colony during the Mau Mau Rebellion, see:- 'Letters From The Forest' (Peter Grant, 2017)The medal retaining its original silk riband and mounted as-worn in the swing-style. The reverse of the white metal mounting bar complete with hinged pin and clasp fittingsA most desirable post-war campaign medal to the 'Red Hackles', 1st Battalion Black Watch, for the Mau Mau Rebellion in Kenya Colony, and scarce seen with such an interesting published articleCondition: Toned GVF