Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (2 Lieut. A. G. Miller, Suss. Yeo.) good very fine £100-140

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Sussex Yeomanry.

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Captain A. G. Miller served in Gallipoli, Egypt, Palestine and France; appointed a 2nd Lieutenant on 1 June 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant on 1 June 1916 and Captain on 17 August 1917. He joined ‘A-B’ Squadron, 1/1st Sussex Yeomanry in 1915 (after being a Volunteer on H.Q. 1914). Trench Mortar Officer S.E.M.B. Helles. Staff Officer Matruh, 1916. 2nd in Command of ‘B’ Company, 1917; Adjutant of the 16th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment, July 1917-October 1918. Present as Adjutant in the actions at Beersheba, Sheria, Jerusalem, Ram Allah, 1917; Robecq and St. Venant and Somme, 1918. He was invalided to England in October 1918 suffering from the effects of gas in France. With copied research.