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Auction: 24112 - Orders, Decorations and Medals - e-Auction
Lot: 514

The Great War campaign pair awarded to Private A. V. Mills, Royal Berkshire Regiment, who was killed in action at the Battle of Passchendaele

British War and Victory Medals (33904 Pte. A.V. Mills. R. Berks. R.), some minor cuts to obverse of first, otherwise both very fine (2)

Albert Victor Mills initially joined the Great War as part of the 5th Royal Berkshire Regiment but later transferred to the 2/4th Royal Berkshire Regiment, serving in the 184th Brigade, 61st Division. They arrived at Poperinghe, west of Ypres, on 15 August 1917 and moved to the trenches at Wieltje on 20 August. Two days later, they participated in an attack on the German defences south-east of St. Julien, and it was either during this attack or shortly afterwards that Mills died due to inflicted wounds at just 19 years old. He is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing in Zonneke, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium.

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