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Auction: 20001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 813

Four: Private A. Mills, Hampshire Regiment

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (5505 Pte. A. Mills, 2: Hampshire Regt.); King's South Africa 1901-02, 2 clasps, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (5505 Pte. A. Mills. Hampshire Regt.); Africa General Service 1902-56, 2 clasps, Somaliland 1902-04, Jidballi (5505 Pte. A. Mills. 1st. Hamp: Regt.); 1914-15 Star (15599 Pte. A. Mills. Hamps:R.), light contact marks, nearly very fine (4)

Alfred Mills was born in 1881 at Kilburn, the son of William Burgess Mills of 122 Fortune Gate Road, Harlesden, London. He attested for the Hampshire Regiment on 11 January 1899 and witnessed extensive service in South Africa, India, Aden and Somaliland. In June 1900, whilst serving during the Second Boer War, he was sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labour for quitting his post when on sentry duty without being relieved - this was later reduced to three months by Lord Roberts. Discharged upon the termination of his first period of engagement on 10 January 1911, Mills returned to his former regiment during the Great War, serving with the 12th Battalion in France and Flanders from 21 September 1915. Transferred to the Reserve in March 1919, he was discharged the following year and likely returned to his civilian career as an electric tram driver. He died on 15 April 1943.

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