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Auction: 21102 - Orders, Decorations and Medals e-Auction 3
Lot: 50

Queen's South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal (91 Pte E. A. W. Milroy. C.I.V.), sometime cleaned, mounted as worn, contact marks, very fine

Edward Andrew Wallace Milroy was born at Marylebone, Middlesex on 6 May 1873 the son of Reverend Andrew Wallace Milroy and Mary Elizabeth Rosher. Leaving Winchester on 18 October 1892 he attended Balliol College, Oxford before embarking upon a career in the legal profession. He joined the Inns of Court Rifle Volunteer Corps on 22 March 1897 shortly before they became the 14th Middlesex City of London Imperial Volunteers. He took part in the Second Boer War with 2nd Mounted Infantry before returning to England. By 1910 he was a partner in a law firm by the name of Monier-Williams, Robinson & Milroy in London while living in Wimbledon. He married Alice Shoberl at Kingston, Surrey in 1919. Milroy died late in 1966 at St. Martins Hospital, Bath; sold together with census information, regimental lists and a group picture of members of the C.I.V. including the recipient.

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