Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Six: Greaser William McMillan, Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary, late Railway Pioneer Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (3296 Pte., Rly. Pnr. Regt.); 1914-15 Star (Gsr., M.F.A.); British War and Victory (Gsr., M.F.A.); Mercantile Marine War Medal 1914-18 (William McMillan); Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal, 1st type, silver (William McMillan), with ‘Gallantry’ brooch bar, some with edge bruising and contact marks, very fine and better (6) £300-350

Private William McMillan, Railway Pioneer Regiment, was discharged as ‘time expired’ on 24 April 1902, aged 21 years. His civilian trade was given as ‘Mason’. At this time his mother and next-of-kin, lived at 49 Cornwall Street, Glasgow. During the Great War he served in the Mercantile Fleet Auxiliary and Merchant Navy. He was awarded the Corporation of Glasgow Bravery Medal on 26 October 1926:

‘Mr William McMillan, 20 Hartfield Street, Townhead, who, on 3rd instant, rescued a boy from drowning in the Forth and Clyde, near Castle Street’. Sold with copied discharge paper, 1902 and citation details.