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The WWI sniper who killed 100 Germans: How deadly Scottish sharpshooter led crack team of 24 men who shot dead 3,000 enemy in two years - as medals go on sale

Lieutenant Neville Methven was chosen to lead Bailey's South African Sharpshooters, which was formed in response to German snipers getting the upper hand on the battlefield.

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