Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Captain Sir William F. Miller, Bt., Imperial Yeomanry, later British Red Cross Society and Order of St. John of Jerusalem

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Rhodesia, Orange Free State, Transvaal (Lieut. Sir W. F. Miller. Bart. 18/Impl. Yeo.); 1914 Star (Sir W. F. Miller. B.R.C.S. & O.St.J.J.); British War and Victory Medals (Capt. Sir W. F. Miller Bt.) mounted as worn and housed in a Gaunt, London, leather case, good very fine (4) £700-£900

Sir William Frederick Miller, Bt., was born in April 1868, the son of Sir Thomas Macdonald Miller, 4th Baronet, of Glenlee, and succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father in September 1875. Educated at Harrow, he was commissioned Second Lieutenant, in the 3rd Battalion, Princess of Wales’s Own Yorkshire Regiment in 1886, before relinquishing his commission the following year. He served with the 18th (Queen's Own Royal Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanark) Company, 6th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa during the Boer War, and was promoted Lieutenant on 3 July 1901, before being invalided home. He subsequently served during the Great War with the British Red Cross Society and the Order of St. John of Jerusalem as a Billeting Officer on the Western Front from 17 October 1914, before being appointed a Staff Captain with 17th Corps, British Expeditionary Force, and was wounded on 29 September 1918. He died on 20 December 1948.