Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Private F. Miller, Gordon Highlanders, late Imperial Light Horse

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 1 clasp, Transvaal (1929 Tpr. F. G. S. Miller, Imp. Lt. Horse); 1914-15 Star (6939 Pte. F. Miller, Gord. Highrs.); British War and Victory Medals (6939 Pte. F. Miller, Gord. Highrs.), together with Gordon Highlanders and Scottish Rifles cap badges, mounted as worn, generally very fine (6) £180-220

Frederick George Seymour Miller was born in Bradpole, near Bridport, Dorset in May 1883, and enlisted in the Imperial Light Horse in January 1901, with whom he witnessed active service in the Transvaal. During the Great War he enlisted in the Gordon Highlanders soon after the outbreak of hostilities and first entered the French theatre at the end of November 1914, though he subsequently transferred to the Labour Corps; sold with official copy birth certificate, dated 31 January 1944, and original Great War period portrait photograph.