Great War Vimy Ridge Officer’s casualty pair awarded to Captain W.L. Tod, 15th Battalion, Royal Scots who having been educated at Edinburgh Academy and Edinburgh University would be commissioned and see service on the Western Front from January 1916 onwards. He would be wounded in the fighting at Vimy Ridge on 9th April 1917 dying of his wounds on 29th April 1917 and subsequently being buried at Etaples Military Cemetery.
Pair: British War Medal and Victory Medal; (CAPT. W.L. TOD.)
Condition: Nearly Extremely Fine
Along with a reproduction image of Tod in uniform.
William Lennox Tod was born on the 15th June 1887 and was educated at Edinburgh Academy and then at Edinburgh University. Serving a pupillage under Messrs B. Hall Blyth and Mr. D.M. Westland, MM. Inst. C.E., becoming later Assistant to the Engineer advising upon the Dunfermline and other town-planning schemes.
Commissioned in the Royal Scots he would serve on the Western Front from January 1916, later being wounded whilst serving as a Captain with the 15th Battalion – Royal Scots at Vimy Ridge on 9th April 1917, later dying of his wounds on 29th April 1917 and being buried at Etaples Military Cemetery and is noted as the son of M.L. Tod, 23 Lennox Street, Edinburgh and the late Henry Tod.