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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 184

(x) Six: Captain T. F. Milton, Gloucestershire Regiment, late 2nd Dragoon Guards

1914 Star, with clasp (6856 Cpl. T. F. Milton. 2/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals 1914-19 (Lieut. T. F. Milton); 1939-45 Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted court-style for display, cleaned and the Stars gilt, very fine (6)

Thomas Frederick Milton appears on the 1911 census as a Lance-Corporal in the 2nd Dragoon Guards (Queen's Bays), based at Aldershot. He arrived in France on 9 September 1914, transferring to the 3rd County of London Yeomanry. He was commissioned into the Machine Gun Corps (Infantry Branch) on 16 February 1917, becoming a temporary Lieutenant on 17 August that year. He served in Egypt and Palestine for 13 months before retiring to 15 Kellett Road, Brixton, following the Armistice. Milton was recalled as a Lieutenant Quartermaster on 10 December 1939, with the 12th Overseas Defence Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Sent to France in March 1940, this Battalion was evacuated from Brest and Saint Malo on 16-17 June 1940, without casualties. Milton joined the Gloucestershire Regiment as a Lieutenant on 11 April 1941, rising to Captain on the General List on 1 November 1947. He relinquished his commission on 27 December 1949, and died in Streatham on 8 May 1982.

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£100