Auction Catalogue

6 December 2006

Starting at 10:00 AM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 1279

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6 December 2006

Hammer Price:
£140

Magdala Medal, for Best Shot, bronze, inscribed, ‘3rd Prize won by Capt. A. B. Millar’ and ‘A.R.A.(I) 1924 Indian Army Rifle Championships’, good very fine £30-40

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Training Ship and Prize Medals.

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Archibald Bruce Millar was born on 22 September 1893. Having previously served in the ranks of the Scottish Horse, he was commissioned on 10 July 1915 and transferred to the Indian Army on 13 August 1918. During the Great War he served in Iraq, March-December 1917 and Palestine, January-September 1918.