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Football caps and medal belonging to Aberdeen-born war hero go under the hammer

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Medals and a football cap awarded to a First World War hero who went on to star for Scotland are to go under the hammer at auction this month.

Willie Wiseman joined the Gordon Highlanders in 1916 and served on the Western Front, where he was gassed, wounded and posted missing for a week before being found recovering in a hospital in Belgium.

After the war Wiseman signed for Queen’s Park FC and captained the Hampden Park side during his eight years with the amateurs.

The left back, from Turriff in Aberdeenshire, also played twice for Scotland, against Wales in 1927 and Ireland in 1930 as well as representing the Scottish League.

Wiseman’s prized medals and an embroidered Scotland cap presented to him in 1930 will be sold at Lyon & Turnbull in Edinburgh on August 15, valued at £1,000 to £1,500.

A Lyon and Turnbull spokesman said: “Wiseman was educated at Fordyce Academy, Portsoy and at Aberdeen University, which he left in 1916.

“He signed up to the local regiment, The Gordon Highlanders during the First World War. He served on the Western Front and was wounded, gassed and report missing in action.

“His football career was spent at Queens Park where he made 264 league appearances between 1922 and 1930 and played for Scotland at amateur level six times and full level twice, playing at left back.”

Queen’s Park FC remember Wiseman as one of the leading players in the 1920s. He made his debut in a home win against Aberdeen in March 1922 and went on to play 264 league games, 50 cup ties and numerous challenge matches in a distinguished career.

Wiseman was in the team that won the Second Division in season 1922/23.

He played against Rangers in a famous Scottish Cup tie on January 18, 1930, played before a Hampden crowd of 95,772 – a world record for an amateur club.

The star also helped defeat England 4-1 in the inaugural Amateur International in 1926.

Wiseman later worked as a roads surveyor with Banffshire Council and during the Second World War served as a Major in the Royal Engineer Corps.