- Military Medal. GV 1st type (335227 Sgt: G. G. Todd.1/8 R.Scots - T: F.)- 1914-15 Star (335227 Sjt. G. G. Todd. R.Scots.)- British War Medal. Silver issue (335227 Sjt. G. G. Todd. R.Scots.)- Interallied Victory Medal (335227 Sjt. G. G. Todd. R.Scots.)Military Medal: Award confirmed as published in the London Gazette of 9 July 1917. It was an award for bravery in the field while serving with the British Expeditionary Force in France & FlandersWounded-in-Action: Sergeant George G. Todd, is confirmed having been 'Wounded-in-Action' bu 'Gunshot & Shrapnel Wound' (or, GSW) - The Peebles News and County Advertiser issue of 8 December 1917, refersQuote (The Peebles News and County Advertiser, 8 December 1917);PEEBLES WAR JOTTINGSMrs George Todd, Dickson Place, has received official intimation that her husband, Sergeant George Todd, Military Medallist, 1/8th Royal Scots, is lying in No. 6 General Hospital, Rouen, France, suffering from the re-opening of an old wound in the left knee, due to a piece of shrapnel being left in the wound at the first operationUnquote.Medals Verification: All 4 x medals confirmed as entitled per the below following referenced published source & respective medal rolls- Military Medal: Published in The Supplement to the London Gazette issue of 9 July 1917- 1914-15 Star: WO 329/2610 (8th Royal Scots entered France 01/09/1915, disembodied 07/02/1919)- British War Medal. Silver issue: WO 329/0639 (Served 8th Royal Scots entire service)- Interallied Victory Medal: WO 329/0639 (Served 8th Royal Scots entire service)The award of Sergeant Todd's well earned Military Medal was reported in two Peebles / Selkirkshire newspapers as under:Quote (The Southern Reporter, issue of 24 May 1917);PEEBLES MAN GAINS MILITARY MEDAL:- Sergeant George Todd, Royal Scots, second son of Mr. John Todd, Cross Street, Peebles, and whose wife resides at, Dickson Place, Peebles, has been awarded the Military Medal. While no particulars are yet to hand, letters have reached Peebles from France from some of his companions in the same battalion, who express their great pleasure that this distinction has been awarded one of their number. Sergeant Todd, who is very popular amongst the other men in the battalion, joined the ranks in, October, 1914, and arrived in France in August, 1915. His younger brother is also serving at the front, while his elder brother after 19 months in France retired last year as a time expired man, and is now acting as Drill Instructor to the local Volunteer Battalion in Peebles. Sergt. Todd, previous to enlisting was employed in March Street Mills, and is a well known member of the Rovers football teamUnquote.Another local newspaper also reported on the award of the Military Medal as under:Quote (The Peebles News and County Advertiser, 26 May 1917);Military Honours for Two Peebles SoldiersMilitary MedalMrs George Todd, 1A Dickson Place, has received intimation that her husband, Sergeant George G. Todd, 1/8th Royal Scots, has been awarded the Military Medal for bravery in the field. Sergeant Todd, who is 29 years of age, and second eldest son of Mr and Mrs John Todd, 16 Cross Street, enlisted in November 1914, and has been in France since August 1915, and was home on furlough during January this year. Previous to enlisting he was employed with March Street Mills, Peebles, and was a prominent football player. A younger brother, Sapper Adam Todd, a telegraphist in Peebles Post Office previous to enlisting, is attached to the Headquarters in France, and is a member of the 40th Division Signal Company. Sergeant Todd's elder brother, John, who retired last year as a time-expired Territorial with the rank of Quarter-Master-Sergeant, after nineteen months service in France, is presently acting as Manager of Peebles Steam Laundry, and holds the rank of Battalion-Sergeant-Major in the 1st Battalion Peeblesshire Volunteer Regiment.Unquote.With credit to the 51st Highland Division website (www.51sthd.co.uk) we are hereunder giving the battalion summary history of 1/8th Royal Scots which battalion was the Pioneer Battalion of the 51st Highland Division from 19 August 1915, through the end of the Great WarQuote,The 8th Battalion, The Royal Scots, was a Territorial Force (TF) battalion recruiting from Haddingtonshire (now East Lothian), Peeblesshire and Midlothian. It had just returned from Annual Camp in 1914 when War was declared. It mobilised at Haddington as part of the Lothian Coast Defence Brigade. Brought up to War Establishment with 200 members of 8HLI 8th (Lanark) Highland Light Infantry it was the first Scottish-based TF unit to land in France, on 5 November 1914, and, judged to be one of only three TF units fit to deploy immediately, moved into the front line as part of 7th Division on 12 November. The Battalion fought as conventional infantry with 7 Division until July 1915 including at Neuve Chapelle, Second Ypres in April 1915 and at Festubert where L/Cpl William Angus, 8HLI attached, won the VC . On27 July the Battalion, with many former miners and other tradesmen in its ranks, was withdrawn to retrain as a pioneer battalion.On completion of its training, and now wearing a second, distinctive, collar badge of a crossed rifle and pick-axe, 8RS joined 51st Highland Division as its Pioneer Battalion in which role they served until the end of the War, taking part in all their actions from The Somme to the advance to Cambrai in October 1918, ending the war at Estrun. Although perhaps not the most 'glamorous' of roles, the Battalion did not have the 'rest periods' of the conventional battalions rotating through the trench lines. It was always in or near the front line improving routes, digging reserve trench lines, wiring, constructing headquarters bunkers and strong points and assisting mining operations. Casualties, although not as dramatic as in some actions involving particular units, were high and continuous. In the latter phases of the War the Battalion reverted increasingly to its primary role as infantry, particularly during the German advance in 1918.The Battalion remained in Belgium until March 1919 when reduced to cadre strength and disbanded the following month in HaddingtonUnquote.George Gray Todd, second son of John Todd (a Woollen Sorter) and Mary Todd (nee Gray), was a native of Innerleithen, Peebles-shire, Scotland, where he was born circa 1888. The 1891 National Census of Scotland, records George living with his parents and elder brother Tom (b. circa 1883), at Innerleithen, where the family resided at, Damside Caen Lee Cottages. By the time of the 1901 National Census for Scotland, George and his family, including a younger brother Adam (b. circa 1894) were living at Peebles, where their residence is recorded as 54 Old Town, Peebles. George married Helen Jeffrey at Peebles, in 1914. After taking his final discharge from the British Army, George Todd returned to his family in Peebles, Scotland, and lived a long life thereafter. George was a nonagenarian, of ninety-three years of age, at the time of his recorded death in Peebles, Scotland, in 1981The medals mounted in the swing-style and as-won by the recipient. The medals suspended from original silk moire ribands on a contemporary white metal mounting bar that retains its long hinged pin & clasp fittingCondition: Mostly GVF