Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Colour Sergeant Instructor F. A. Mihill, Northamptonshire Regiment, later Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Volunteers and Essex Regiment

India General Service 1895-1902, 3 clasps, Punjab Frontier 1897-98, Samana 1897, Tirah 1897-98 (3650 Lce. Corpl. F. Mihill 1st. Bn. North’n Regt.); British War Medal 1914-20 (18603 C. Sjt. F. A. Mihill. Essex R.); Army L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (1st. Cl: Sergt. Instr. F. A. Mihill. 1st. Bn. B.B. & C.I.R. Volrs.) edge bruising, very fine (3) £300-£400

Frederick Albert Mihill was born in Chatham, Kent, in 1873 and attested there for the Northamptonshire Regiment on 11 December 1891, having previously served in the 4th (Militia) Battalion, Essex Regiment. He served with the 1st Battalion in India from 16 February 1894, and was promoted Corporal on 30 November 1898; Sergeant on 11th August 1900; and Colour Sergeant on 4 April 1903. He transferred to the Indian Unemployed List as a 2nd Class Sergeant Instructor, Calcutta Volunteer Rifles on 25 September 1907, and was promoted 1st Class Sergeant Instructor on 4 October 1908.

Mihill transferred to the 1st Battalion Essex Regiment (presumably to stay in India) on 1 September 1909, but soon returned as an Instructor for the Auxiliary Forces of India, and served with the 1st Battalion Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Volunteers, being awarded the Long Service and Good Conduct Medal with Gratuity per Indian Army Order 239 dated 25 April 1910. He was discharged on 4 January 1913, having been appointed a Platform Inspector with the Indian Railways.

Following the outbreak of the Great War Mihill re-enlisted in the Essex Regiment at Bombay on 25 January 1915, and was promoted Colour Sergeant the same day. He joined the 3rd Battalion on 16 March 1915, and was appointed acting Company Sergeant Major on 14 October 1915. After serving during the Great War both in India and at home with various Reserve and Garrison Battalions (and so not entitled to the Victory Medal) he was finally discharged on 6 November 1919, and died in Devon in 1955.

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