The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1902-04 (5803 Pte. S. Mills. Middlesex Regt.) contact marks, very fine £200-£240

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Jack Webb Collection of Medals and Militaria.

View
Collection

Provenance: Seaby, November 1974.

Sidney Mills was born in Islington in 1881 and attested for the Middlesex Regiment at Sandown, Isle of Wight, on 28 March 1899, whilst serving in the Hampshire and Isle of Wight Militia Artillery. Posted initially to the 3rd Battalion, he transferred to the 2nd Battalion on 7 November 1901, and served with them in South Africa during the Boer War from that date until 21 October 1902 (entitled to the Queen’s South Africa Medal with clasps for Cape Colony, Transvaal, 1901, and 1902). He was one of 33 men of the Battalion who served with No. 3 Company, Mounted Infantry in Somaliland, before being invalided to India on 23 September 1903. He was discharged Medically Unfit at Netley on 24 May 1904, after 5 years and 58 days’ service.