A group of five medals to Corporal (later Police Sergeant) John Darroch

A group of five medals to Corporal (later Police Sergeant) John Darroch, City of Glasgow Police and 1st Batallion Lovat's Scouts Yeomanry: 1914-15 Star, British War Medal 1914-20, Victory Medal (2270 CPL. J. DARROCH. 1-LOVAT'S SCTS.), Police Coronation Medal 1911, Scottish Police (P.C. J. DARROCH.), engraved in serif capitals; Coronation Medal 1937, unnamed as issued; good very fine or better, swing mounted, the bar being adapted for display [5]; together with a Royal Life Saving Society Swimming Proficiency Medal in bronze (J. DARROCH AUG. 1912), cased; and a small quantity of photographs and ephemera.

John Darroch was born 26th January 1887 in Ardferual Jura, Argyllshire. He was a Police Constable at the outbreak of the First World War, and he enlisted in Lovat's Scouts on the 18th September 1914, aged 27. He disembarked at Suvla Bay in September 1915, and served subsequently in Egypt, Salonika and France. he married Miss Jane Caulder on the 29th August 1918, at Stromness, and retired as a Sergeant in the City of Glasgow Police in March 1938, his conduct being described as "Exemplary".