Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family Group:

Pair: Chaplain to the Forces the Reverend E. L. Millen, Army Chaplains’ Department, later Rector of St. Audries, West Quantoxhead, Somerset
British War and Victory Medals (Rev. E. L. Millen) good very fine

Pair: The Reverend C. A. Millen
Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.VI.R., 1st issue (The Rev. Charles A. Millen) extremely fine

Pair: Mrs. Ethel Millen, née Winterton, British Red Cross Society
British Red Cross Society War Medal 1914-18, gilt, with top riband bar; St. John Ambulance Association Re-Examination Cross, bronze, the reverse engraved ‘171858 Ethel Winterton’; together with a British Red Cross Society County of Stafford Membership Medal, gilt; British Red Cross Society Lapel Badge, gilt and enamel; and various other Red Cross lapel pins, including those for the British Red Cross Agriculture Fund, good very fine

Pair: Mr. R. Winterton
Defence Medal; Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R., 1st issue (Richard Winterton.) nearly extremely fine (lot) £200-240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Awards to Chaplains formed by Philip Mussell.

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Edgar Leopold Millen was born in Camberwell, London, in 1887, and was educated at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, being ordained Deacon in 1914 and Priest in 1916. He married Miss Ethel Winterton at Lichfield in the summer of 1917. He served as temporary Chaplain to the Forces during the Great War in Egypt from 4 January 1918, and was appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Forces in 1920. He served as Chaplain to his old college in Oxford from 1921-24, before taking up a position as Assistant Master at Magdalen College School, Oxford, in the latter year, a post he held until 1935. He served as Priest Vicar of Wells Cathedral from 1936-41, and was appointed Rector of St. Audries, West Quantoxhead, Somerset, in 1941. He died in 1968.

Charles Albert Millen, the younger brother of Edgar Leopold Millen, was born in Camberwell in 1897, and was ordained Deacon in 1931, and Priest in 1932. He served as Secretary of the Seamens Friendly Society of St. Paul, and died in Droxford, Hampshire, in 1963.

Ethel Millen, née Winterton, served during the Great War as a Voluntary Aid Detachment member at Ravenhill Red Cross Hospital, Rugeley, Staffordshire, where she carried out 4,380 hours of work on a part-time basis between August 1915 and January 1919.

Edgar Leopold Millen and Charles Albert Millen were brothers; Edgar Leopold Millen’s wife Ethel Millen, née Winterton, was the sister of Mr. Richard Winterton.