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№ 1469

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21 June 2013

Hammer Price:
£360

Four: Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander O. Mills, Royal Navy

Naval General Service 1915-62, 1 clasp, Persian Gulf 1909-1914 (St. Surg., R.N., H.M.S. Redbreast); 1914-15 Star (St. Surg., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (St. Surg., R.N.) good very fine and better (4) £220-260

Oswald Mills was born in London on 13 August 1879. After qualifying in medicine he was appointed a Surgeon in the Royal Navy on 8 February 1902; being advanced to Staff Surgeon in February 1910. In March 1908 he was posted to H.M.S. Redbreast on which he served in operations in the Persian Gulf; after which he was posted to H.M.S. Halcyon in June 1912. In The 1915 Navy List he is shown as Staff Surgeon at H.M.S. Woolwich - the depot ship for destroyers at Portsmouth. Mills retired with the rank of Surgeon Lieutenant-Commander, possibly due to ill health on 20 January 1918. He died on 5 August 1957. With copied birth and death certificates and some other research.