Auction Catalogue

22 October 1997

Starting at 2:00 PM

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Orders, Decorations and Medals

The Westbury Hotel  37 Conduit Street  London  W1S 2YF

Lot

№ 196

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22 October 1997

Hammer Price:
£290

Five: Vice Admiral H. J. O. Millar, Royal Navy
East and West Africa 1887-1900, 1 clasp, Witu 1890 (Lieut., R.N. H.M.S. Conquest); 1914-15 Star Trio (Capt., R.N.); Coronation 1911, named (Captain, R.N.) good very fine (5)

Herbert James Ogilvy Millar was Lieutenant of Conquest and served in the Naval Brigade under the command of Vice Admiral Hon. Sir E. R. Fremantle, K.C.B., Commander-in-Chief, East Indies, for the punitive expedition against the Sultan of Vitu, in East Africa, October, 1890; Captain of the Royal Naval College, Greenwich; Captain, 31 December 1905; Rear Admiral, 26 April 1917; Vice Admiral, 6 April 1922.