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Auction: 19001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 723

Three: Sapper J. McMillan, 86th Field Company, Royal Engineers, who was killed in action in France in March 1918

1914-15 Star (46249 Spr. J. McMillan, R.E.); British War and Victory Medals (46249 Spr. J. McMillan, R.E.), together with the recipient's Memorial Plaque 1914-18 (James MacMillan), good very fine or better (4)

James McMillan entered the Egypt theatre of operations on 19 July 1915 and may have seen action in Gallipoli and then Palestine. He was subsequently killed in action in France on 19 March 1918, while serving in 86th Field Company, R.E.

Aged 32, he was the son of James and Catherine McMillan of Kildalton, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, and the husband of Jane McIntyre McMillan of 19 Hope Street, Glasgow. He is buried in the Sailly-Labourse Communal Cemetery Extension.


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