Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Family group:

Four: Warrant Officer Class 1 W. Millner, Yorkshire Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 6 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Belfast, South Africa 1901 (7343 Pte., Vol. Coy. York. Regt.); British War and Victory Medals, small M.I.D. emblem (9468 W.O. Cl. 1, York. R.); Belgium, Croix de Guerre, ‘A’ cypher, first with slight edge bruising

Four: Able Seaman E. Millner, Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve

1939-45 Star; Pacific Star, these unnamed; War and Australia Service Medals, these officially impressed (S.V.418 E. Millner) mounted as worn, good very fine and better (8) £300-360

William Millner

M.I.D. London Gazette 22 May 1917.

Belgian Croix de Guerre London Gazette 15 April 1918.

William Millner was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire. A Plumber by occupation and a member of the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Yorkshire Regiment, he attested for one years service at Scarborough on 24 January 1900, aged 20 years, 8 months. With the Volunteer Company Yorkshire Regiment he served in South Africa, February 1900-June 1901. Discharged 10 June 1901. Before the Great War William Milner worked for the Scarborough Corporation as a Waterworks Inspector. In the Great War he served once more with the Yorkshire Regiment, serving as a Warrant Officer Class 1. For his wartime services he was mention in despatches and awarded the Belgian Croix de Guerre. With copied (Boer War) service papers, m.i.c. and gazette extracts.

Ernest Millner

Ernest Millner was born in Scarborough on 7 January 1904. As a Cadet in the R.A.N.V.R. he was mobilised on 18 September 1942 and was allocated to H.M.A.S. Penguin. Demobilised on 10 January 1946. With certificate of eligibility for the 1939-45 and Pacific Stars and copied service papers.

The two believed to be father and son.