Rare Original WW1 Highland Light Infantry HLI Cutaway No 1 Blue Dress Jacket for Major William Malcolm Fleming-Hamilton.
With unusual and distinctive pleated back.
Fabric medal ribbon bar containing both the Queen's and King's South Africa medals from the Boer War.
Metal rank crowns for a Major.
All KC HLI brass buttons present, including an unusual design for buttons on both the front and back of the cuffs.
With a makers label for Anderson & Sons of Edinburgh and named to Major M F Hamilton (a shorter form of his full name)
Chest Size approx 35 inches. Armpit to armpit measurement is 18 inches. Armpit to cuff is 18 inches.
Nicely tailored and lined and made from a thick, heavy wool fabric.
In generally very good condition except for a moth hole near the front buttons.
Rare to find Cutaway versions of the No.1 jacket
Major William Malcolm Fleming-Hamilton
He was born in 1869, was schooled at Eton and fought in both the Boer War and WW1.
He was a Justice of the Peace (JP) and Deputy Lieutenant (DL), and he was from Craichlaw, Wigtownshire, Scotland. He died in 1931
The London Gazette records his commission as 2nd Lieutenant in the HLI as “Gentleman Cadet William Malcolm Fleming Hamilton … to be Second Lieutenant” — dated 14th August1889
He appears as Captain W. M. F. Hamilton in Boer War shipping records (troopship Galician, Sept 1902), and was made a temporary Major on 5th August at the outbreak of WWI.
In March 1922 he retired and is listed among the Highland Light Infantry officers shown as Major (retired pay) who ceased to belong to the Reserve of Officers.
