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Auction: 16001 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 3

An 'H.M. Funeral' 1910 R.V.M., Royal Humane Society Group of Six to Chief Petty Officer H.G.B. Mills, Royal Navy
a) Royal Victorian Medal, E.VII.R., bronze, unnamed as issued
b) 1914-15 Star (208082. H.G.B. Mills, P.O., R.N.)
c) British War and Victory Medals (208082 H.G.B. Mills. P.O. R.N.)
d) Naval Long Service & G.C., G.V.R., 1st 'Admiral's bust' type (208082 H.G.B. Mills. P.O. H.M.S. Suffolk.)
e) Royal Humane Society, small bronze medal, successful (Harry G. Mills A.B. July 12. 1906.), lacking integral top riband buckle, traces of silvering to last, pitting from Star, therefore the group nearly very fine (6)

R.V.M. awarded 6.6.1910 Mills, H.G.B., Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Excellent
'Gun Carriage Party, H.M. Funeral'.

Royal Humane Society case no. 34,747: 'At 10:45pm on the 12th July, 1906, a private of the Royal Marine Light Infantry threw himself overboard from H.M.S. King Edward VII in Portsmouth Harbour, the night being dark, with a strong flood tide. At great risk, H.G. Mills, Able Seaman, jumped in and supported him until they were picked up by a boat.'

208082 Chief Petty Officer Harry George Budden Mills, R.V.M., born Poole, Dorset, June 1884; joined the Royal Navy as Boy Second Class, January 1900; advanced Ordinary Seaman, H.M.S. Gladiator, June 1902; promoted Able Seaman, April 1903; transferred to H.M.S. King Edward VII, February 1905; promoted Leading Seaman, July 1906; transferred to H.M.S. Excellent, May 1910, and took part as one of the Naval Ratings from H.M.S. Excellent at the State Funeral of H.M. King Edward VII, 20.5.1910; promoted Petty Officer, H.M.S. Dreadnought, July 1912; served during the Great War in H.M.S. Excellent; transferred to H.M.S. Suffolk, May 1917; awarded Naval L.S. & G.C., 8.8.1917; ; promoted Chief Petty Officer, H.M.S. Dido, February 1920; Shore Pensioned, September 1920.

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