Three: Stoker First Class R. S. Miller, Royal Navy, later Royal Canadian Air Service and Royal Canadian Mounted Police

British War and Victory Medals (S.S. 118917 R. S. Millar [sic]. Sto. 2. R.N.); Royal Canadian Mounted Police Long Service Medal, E.II.R., 1st issue (R. S. Miller.) mounted as worn; together with the recipient’s Mine Clearance Service metal cuff badge; St. John Ambulance Association Re-examination Cross, bronze, reverse engraved ‘431406 Robert S. Miller’, with two date bars, for 1945 and 1947, these both numbered ‘431406’; and St. John Ambulance Association badge, good very fine (3) £200-£240

Robert Sydney Miller was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, on 12 March 1900 and joined the Royal Navy as a Stoker Second Class on 26 June 1918 - for unknown reasons, his surname was recorded as Millar. He served during the latter stages of the Great War in H.M.S. Newark from 10 September 1918, and then in the Royal Navy Mine Clearing Service, and was promoted Stoker First Class on 25 October 1919. He was discharged on 8 March 1922.

Emigrating to Canada in 1927, Miller joined the Royal Canadian Air Force at Winnipeg on 29 January 1929, serving for 3 years and 63 days, before taking his discharge on 31 March 1932. Joining the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that same year, for many years he worked in the Criminal Investigation Division in Regina, Saskatchewan, and retired on 30 April 1955. He died on 23 February 1958.

Sold with the recipient’s original Royal Navy parchment Certificate of Service and Qualification in Stoker Ratings record; original Royal Canadian Air Force parchment Certificate of Service; and a copy of ‘The Hidden Threat - The Story of the Mines and Minesweeping by the Royal Navy in World War I by Jim Crossley.