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Auction: 15001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 585

Four: Captain Sir W.F. Miller, Bt., British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Late Imperial Yeomanry
Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, four clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. Sir W.F. Miller. Bart. 18/Impl. Yeo.); 1914 Star (Sir W.F. Miller. B.R.C.S.& O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Sir W.F. Miller Bt.), good very fine, mounted as worn and housed in a Gaunt, London, leather case (4)

Captain Sir William Frederick Miller, Bt., born April 1868, the son of Sir Thomas Macdonald Miller, 4th Baronet, and the brother of Thomas George Alexander Miller and Francis Macdonald Miller; succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father, September 1875; educated at Harrow; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 3rd Battalion, Princess of Wales's Own Yorkshire Regiment, 1886; retired, 1887; served with the 18th (Queen's Own Royal Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanark) Company, 6th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry during the Boer War; promoted Lieutenant, 3.7.1901; subsequently served during the Great War with the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; appointed Staff Captain, 17th Corps, British Expeditionary Force, wounded, 29.9.1918; died, 20.12.1948.

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