Auction Catalogue

24 & 25 June 2009

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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Lot

№ 925

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25 June 2009

Hammer Price:
£800

Eight: Major Charles Gordon Napier Milne, Canadian Engineers, late Gordon Highlanders

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (8079 Pte., Gordon Highrs.); 1914-15 Star (Lieut., Can. Eng.); British War and Victory Medals (Lieut); Defence Medal; Coronation 1937; Colonial Auxiliary Force Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Major C.N.G. Milne, 2nd Fld. Trp. C.E.’, complete with top bar; Colonial Auxiliary Forces Long Service, G.V.R. (Major, 2nd Fld. Troop C.E.) very fine and better (8) £700-900

Charles Napier Gordon Milne was born in Ellon, Aberdenshire in 1880 and was educated at the Aberdeen Grammar School. Serving in the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Gordon Highlanders, he enlisted into the Gordon Highlanders for one year at Aberdeen on 17 January 1900. Serving in South Africa, he was present at the battles of Doornkop and Leekoehoek - in the latter battle Milne witnessed the deeds for which Captain Younger of the 1st Battalion Gordon Highlanders earned a posthumous Victoria Cross. Milne left an account of the battle in The Grammar School Magazine, October 1900. He was discharged on 6 May 1901. For his service in South Africa, Milne received a War Gratuity of £5 and the Queen’s Medal with five clasps. Milne then emigrated to Canada and was employed as a Civil Engineer on the railways. Prior to the war he continued his volunteer service with the Canadian Engineers. During the Great War he served with the C.E.F. in France and Flanders, and in the United Kingdom. He was commissioned into the 2nd Field Company Canadian Engineers in September 1914 and served until demobilized in February 1919. As a Major in the Canadian Engineers, he was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Force L.S. Medal, notified in G.O. 68 of April 1922; and was awarded the Colonial Auxiliary Force Officers’ Decoration, notified in G.O. 173 of October 1928. In the inter-war years he returned to Aberdeen and was the Chairman of the Aberdeen Area Council when he earned the Coronation Medal 1937. During the Second World War he held a commission in the Home Guard, being a Major with the 4th City of Aberdeen Battalion Home Guard from 1 February 1941. Sold with copied service papers and other research. .