Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

1914-15 Star (Capt: A. H. Mitford. York: & Lanc: R.) good very fine £70-£90

Archibald Henry Mitford was born in St. Helier, Jersey, on 9 November 1865 and was commissioned into the 3rd and 4th Battalions of the Highland Light Infantry on 24 May 1884. After the outbreak of the Great War he was commissioned as a Temporary Lieutenant into the 10th Battalion, York and Lancaster Regiment on 30 September 1914 and appointed Captain one month later. He transferred to the General List for duty as an Interpreter on 17 May 1916, seeing service with the Military Intelligence Department, and later served as the editor of the Russo-British Chamber of Commerce Journal. He relinquished his commission on 4 February 1920, retaining the rank of Captain. He died at Poole, Dorset in September 1946.

Sold with copied research.