Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain B. S. Wolf-Milner, Nigeria Regiment Supplementary Reserve, late Royal Fusiliers

General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Iraq (G-128734 Pte. B. S. Wolf-Milner. R. Fus.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Efficiency Decoration, G.VI.R., 1st issue, Nigeria, reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. Basil Wolf-Milner, Nigeria Regiment Supp. Reserve’, very fine or better (4) £280-£320

Provenance: Dix Noonan Webb, March 2012.

Basil Spencer Wolf-Milner was born in Withington, Lancashire on 29 September 1900. He joined the Inns of Court O.T.C. on 28 October 1918 and was discharged on 26 March 1919. He then enlisted in the Royal Fusiliers and served with the 4th Battalion in Iraq, 1919-20. On 7 May 1930 he became a Civil Accountant in the Accountant-General’s Department in Nigeria. In July 1933 he was commissioned into the local forces. Awarded the Efficiency Decoration in 1945 (Nigeria Gazette 1 November 1945). Captain Wolf-Milner died on 10 September 1947, aged 46 years. He was the husband of M. Wolf-Milner of Old Colwyn, Wales. His name is commemorated in St. Trillo’s Churchyard, Llandrillo-yn-Rhos.