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Auction: 11011 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals & Militaria
Lot: 271

Miniature Awards: The Great War D.S.O. Group of Nine Attributed to Lieutenant-Colonel G.W. Miller, Royal Army Medical Corps Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., gold and enamel, with integral gold top riband bar; The Most Venerable Order of St. John, Officer´s Badge, silver; 1914-15 Star; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. Oakleaves; Jubilee 1935; Coronation 1937; Territorial Decoration, G.V.R., with integral top riband bar; France, Republic, Croix de Guerre 1914-1916, with star on riband, extremely fine, mounted as originally worn (9) Estimate £ 120-160 D.S.O. London Gazette 1.1.1918 Maj. George Waterson Miller, R.A.M.C. Order of St. John, Officer London Gazette 21.10.1927 Colonel George Waterson Miller, D.S.O., M.B., R.A.M.C. (T.F.) T.D. London Gazette 22.5.1918 Major George W. Miller, D.S.O., M.B., Royal Army Medical Corps. France, Croix de Guerre London Gazette 7.10.1919 Major George Waterson Miller, D.S.O., M.B., T.D., Royal Army Medical Corps (Territorial Force). Lieutenant-Colonel George Waterson Miller, D.S.O., T.D., born 1874; educated at Dundee High School and Edinburgh University; enlisted in the 1st Volunteer Battalion, Royal Highlanders, 1891; Commissioned Second Lieutenant, 1899; promoted Captain, Royal Army Medical Corps, 1908; appointed Assistant Professor of Medicine, St. Andrew´s University, 1909; promoted Major, 1914; served with the Medical Corps during the Great War on the Western Front from 1915 (twice Mentioned in Despatches, London Gazette 29.5.1917 and 24.12.1917); Lieutenant-Colonel (in Command), 1918. Provenance: Glendining, 2.3.1989 (when sold alongside the full-size group)

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